Post #1853757
2026-05-01 12:16 UTC
Replies (4)
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@HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2026-05-01 12:22
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2ZMvBT8W4 4:25 (sorry my third party ubuntu frontend can’t share timestamp links) I thought it’s a good summarym
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@novafunc@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-05-01 12:29
The main problem is that it’s just not battle tested like GNU coreutils are. And Canonical has only tested this in one cycle, 25.10, before introducing it in an LTS. Would’ve made more sense to wait until 26.10. Other find problem with it being MIT licensed.
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@brandon@piefed.social 2026-05-01 13:12
One issue with this is that uutils is licensed under the MIT license, instead of coreutils’ GPL license. In fact, for reasons I don’t quite understand many of these rust rewrites are licensed with the MIT license. This will contribute to long term erosion of the rights granted by the GPL to software projects and users.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 13:56
Its two fold for many (not for me): Rust and MIT