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It isn't about that though. Of course GNU doesn't hold that right, who said they did?
by quickthrower2 3y ago
It isn't about that though. Of course GNU doesn't hold that right, who said they did?
- noirscape 3y agoEven then I think the amount of people who care about MIT vs. GPL isn't large enough to be relevant. "Communities" (really, just distro maintainers, I don't think most people will install their own coreutils) aren't really that aligned to the GPL as the parent likes to imply they are (the only real license alignment usually is "no proprietary if we can help it", which makes GPL vs MIT equal and probably even leans slightly towards MIT because that permits more functional systems in restrictive environments.) A distro's choice will probably come down to feature completeness, safety down the line and ease of maintenance. In that regard, uutils is a much scarier thing for GPL adherents than the coreutils, which suffer from the classic GNU Project bloat problems as well as being written in C, neither of which will ever be fixed (due to structural GNU Project reasons as well as it just being a 3 decades old software project.)