Providing fodder for the “ermagerd, rust is evil” crowd, even though it has nothing to do with rust.
No it’s just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.
uutils is rewritten by a corporation? Huh, TIL. I guess their website is wrong:
uutils is a community-driven, open-source effort maintained by volunteers around the world. There is no company behind it, just contributors who care about the future of foundational command-line tools.
Claims are easy. Actions are what matters. rewriting FOSS program with GPL license under MIT license is only possible from either a corporate backed project (because it makes takeover of a lot of FOSS infra so much simpler for them), or an extremely stupid team. both cases are equally bad.
Got it. Andrew Gallant is extremely stupid. Will keep that in mind.
Thanks! So probably, we can conclude that he’s getting paid corporate money. Good for him, just a shame if others use it.
Btw, a very smart person can still make very stupid decisions.
Oh then it must be because of the MIT license!
/s
That’s my biggest pet peeve with it honestly. My theory is still that it’s a mistake that modern languages/tooling create a LICENSE file for you. In the before-times, when someone posted a project without then you told them and they educated themselves. Some chose GPL, some MIT, all fine, as long you do it with an educated mind. But now, the file gets created, technically legally binding contract of sorts, and the authors simply never bothered to check.
Change my mind: Linux is only still highly relevant because of GPL, not despite of.
Cargo doesn’t create a LICENCE for you, and it doesn’t set the metadata like npm. It even tells you to go choose a license when you try to publish a crate without one
The term “cuck license” for MIT and similar licenses is a good one IMO.
I agree with you on that one.
