Post #1532019
2026-04-22 17:40 UTC
Rust based MIT licensed coreutils
Replies (3)
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@vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-22 18:46
Yeah...
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@arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-22 22:54
I don’t think I’ll ever understand the constant complaints about the license. If it were the kernel or some software that was particularly unique, then I’d understand. However, there are many existing implementations of the coreutils programs that are already under permissive licenses. If someone didn’t want to use the GPL, they could just use one of those. This is partly why it is incredibly fiddly to write cross-platform shell scripts.
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@racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2026-04-23 08:45
Yes! I mean, don’t divert the hate of permissive license to Rust. Those are unrelated but now more people hate Rust because of this.