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The original authors of uutils do not particularly care about licensing, and the Rust ecosystem defaults to MIT/Apache2. So they chose that. Many people have d
by steveklabnik 19d ago
The original authors of uutils do not particularly care about licensing, and the Rust ecosystem defaults to MIT/Apache2. So they chose that.
Many people have decided that this decision supposedly specifically about licensing ideology.
You can make up your mind about which of the two you believe.
See also, for Ubuntu's take on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707948 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49707948
- collinfunk 19d agoAs I have told the authors privately, I find it quite difficult to take their claim that they "don't care about licensing" seriously. 13/14 of the projects under uutils are relicensing GNU or GPL'd software. The other one, shadow-rs, is totally vibe-coded, and the README mistakenly says the original shadow is GNU software under the GPL, which is neither true. If 14/14 are relicensing, or in that one case, what is thought to be relicensing, the simple explanation is that it is an explicit goal of the project.