• Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Well presumably there are at least some performance and safety benefits to using these new alternatives. Otherwise it’s just a blatant license dodge.

    • bitcrafter@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      In that case, nothing is stopping Debian from using uutils as it is; they can’t really “re-license” it anyway since the original code will continue to be MIT-licensed.