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What’s with all these new versions of GNU utilities being built with the MIT license? Seems like there are a lot of them.
by jm4 2y ago
What’s with all these new versions of GNU utilities being built with the MIT license? Seems like there are a lot of them.
- mprovost 2y agoThe GNU project didn't invent ls. The GNU coreutils (including ls) were originally new versions of either proprietary (AT&T) or BSD licensed utilities.
- Arnavion 2y agoRust users tend to permissively-license their code in general. I don't know if there are easily available statistics but almost everything on the Rust package repository (crates.io) is MIT or Apache-2.0; certainly the most popular libraries are.
- fngjdflmdflg 2y agoRelated: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils https://github.com/uutils/coreutils "Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils"