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This 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 b
by gpm 18d ago
This 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 18d 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 18d agoWhat's wrong with them using the coreutils tests?
- RichardLake 18d 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 18d 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 18d 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 17d 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.