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Ubuntu Will Replace GNU Core Utilities With Rust (youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What you’re referring to as Linux is actually Uutils/Linux…

[+] [email protected] -17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Sounds good to me.

I actually prefer the MIT license too. It's more open.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

If you were a survivor of Unix Wars you'd never touch MIT again

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

More open strictly in that it allows free software to be rolled up into proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So what? Some people just want to make stuff that helps other people.

A more open license is a way to accomplish that.

IMO it's weird to complain that someone makes their thing even more open source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I'm not complaining; I'm clarifying for less informed readers. It's a subtle and often misleading distinction.

Calling a license that leads to more proprietary software "even more open source" is absolutely debatable. The only extra restriction is disallowing free software becoming proprietary, which promotes more openness overall.

You're not wrong by any means, but people should understand the actual tradeoff when considering licenses.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

this means ubuntu is no longer a linux distro?? because if linux hardcore people think that linux is kernel+gnu then that means both android and ubuntu are not distros!! i believe the opposite, linux kernel? linux distro of course!! and ubuntu is the android of linux distros even if android is a linux distro itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

IMHO distros share the same apps. The defaults can differ, the implementations too but the user can install apps that are on other distros.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ubuntu is no longer GNU/Linux distro. Linux is just a kernel.:)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It using glibc still distinguishes it as more of a GNU system than, say, Alpine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

oh no!! wait but that means that xubuntu will still be around?? because as far as i know, xfce has some elements that use agpl and that would interfere with some rust code and would hurt xubuntu. would that make xubuntu stop existing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IANAL, but as far as I know there's no problem with distributing MIT software as a GPL component, since MIT allows imposing extra restrictions (like the share-the-source limitations of the GPL) to the code, so you can in theory turn every MIT software into GPL, what you can't do is turn GPL software into MIT, so if the GPL software links MIT libraries that are part of its function, that instance of MIT software needs to follow the GPL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

do they interfere?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Fuck Ubuntu fuck MIT fuck everything

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