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>> Meaning, if there is GNU coreutils around but no liberally licensed alternative, there will be a market for alternatives that proprietary vendors can use. Th
by phkahler 4y ago
>> Meaning, if there is GNU coreutils around but no liberally licensed alternative, there will be a market for alternatives that proprietary vendors can use. Thus, somewhere out there will maintain a proprietary coreutils library and charge money for it.
And where is that?
- TylerE 4y agoBSD user land?
- peoplefromibiza 4y agoquoting Thus, somewhere out there will maintain a proprietary coreutils library and charge money for it BSD is not proprietary
- est31 4y agoI think people who deeply care about avoiding GPL use BSDs instead, so they swap out the entire OS (say some console vendor). As for coreutils, they aren't that important that one has to use them in particular. There are plenty of devices using Busybox, which uses GPL as well but one that is less offensive to many companies. I'm not sure what Android is doing, it might not have executables by default? Coreutils might not be important enough for people to pay for its maintenance, as is seen by people leaving the proprietary unixes. Idk. That sentence was mostly there to explain my more general argument.
- fomine3 4y agoToybox is a BSDL alternative to busybox