This week Jonathan Bennett and Jeff Massie chat with Sylvestre Ledru about the Rust Coreutils! Why would we want to re-implement 50 year old utilities, what’s the benefit of doing them in Rust, and what do the maintainers of the regular coreutils project think about it?
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the goal is to “rewrite it in x” is to move everything to permissive liscenses. then lock future changes away. just like every thing else “security” is used as pretext.
We chatted a bit about exactly that. They make no claim that this effort is for security, and freely admitted that some of their users are doing so precisely because it’s MIT and not GPL. So… Yes, but actually no.
I like the distinction here where one’s propagating a standard, vs code itself. MIT for the former (network stack or codec) and code itself (GPL).
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gpl-vs-mit-comparison-popular-open-source-licenses-garc%C3%ADa-marc-9ylqf
That sounds like yes, but actually, yes. No?
Make nice changes that are difficult to do another reasonable way and wrap them in GPL or AGPL
After all these FLOSS columns, I finally looked up what FLOSS meant.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html
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Happy to chat whenever :)
Upstream GNU coreutils maintainer,
Pádraig Brady
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