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I think the insinuation is more that the GNU project probably was also breaking license terms in order to do the rewrites. (Not commenting on the veracity of th

by rtpg 5y ago

I think the insinuation is more that the GNU project probably was also breaking license terms in order to do the rewrites. (Not commenting on the veracity of that claim though)

stavros 5y ago
I don't think anyone is accusing either project of breaking license terms. In fact, I find the GP's argument tenuous, since the Kelling says "you're making less free coreutils than their predecessors" and the GP says "that's rich, considering that the original coreutils were more free than their predecessors".
vetinari 5y ago
That would be quite a feat, given that the proprietary unices didn't have source available for their utils. Where would the GNU project get it?
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- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  While I don't for a moment believe that they were ripping off code or otherwise violating copyright, unix source code wasn't that hard to get if you wanted it; sure, it wasn't freely available on the net, but plenty of companies, research groups, and even schools were working with it.