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I'm not sure how point 2 is and advantage for anyone but the company tbh. It's also going to be _really_ hard to be more portable than GNU coreutils, when it c

• nickysielicki 5y ago
  The whole value of coreutils is that it’s old and stable. I just can’t imagine someone making major contributions to rust coreutils and keeping them internal as some sort of competitive advantage. I do embedded linux for work and while OpenEmbedded makes it pretty easy to manage license obligations, it’s always a pain in the ass to deal with GPL code in a larger team where people will find any excuse to bikeshed about their misunderstandings of the GPL. For questionable historical reasons, my current job manually whitelists every GPL package we ship, so it being MIT makes things less abrasive to teams like mine. That’s an advantage for everyone, because it makes me more likely to use it and it makes me more likely to submit bug reports and fixes.