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What approach would you suggest for priorisation of tickets?
by 7bit 2mo ago
What approach would you suggest for priorisation of tickets?
- secondcoming 2mo agoIdeally there should have been no tickets at all if all that's happening is a program being ported to another language.
- gpm 2mo agoThis isn't a port - it's a re-implementation without any use of the original source. That's also not all that's happening. It's also making improvements like better internalization support, better error messages, and a small handful of other extensions.
- collinfunk 2mo agoI have had to tell them repeatedly to stop copying tests verbatim, including the original comments from GNU coreutils. So I doubt this is true, which is frustrating.
- leni536 2mo agoWhat's wrong with them using the coreutils tests?
- RichardLake 2mo agoIf they followed the license nothing. My uninformed knowledge is that the rust based rewrite is MIT, the originals are GPL, and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.
- leni536 2mo ago> and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL. Why is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses.
- heinrich5991 2mo agoBut you should be able to use a GPL test suite on an MIT-licensed program (or even a proprietary one, without the program needing to be under the GPL.
- gpm 2mo agoEhh... Technically yes but when you don't own the copyright on the tests you need to be very careful against creating derivative works, and you need to preserve both licenses in the distributed source.
- mrkdkirlwkfkf 2mo agoCapitalism.