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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Rust ๐Ÿ‘
MIT instead of GPL ๐Ÿ‘Ž

[โ€“] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Debian should fork it and re-license it under the GPL.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What would be the point of doing that when they can just keep using GNU coreutils?

[โ€“] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well presumably there are at least some performance and safety benefits to using these new alternatives. Otherwise it's just a blatant license dodge.

In that case, nothing is stopping Debian from using uutils as it is; they can't really "re-license" it anyway since the original code will continue to be MIT-licensed.

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