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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
Edited 5 days ago
Canonical feels an adversary of GPLv3 and/or somwhat shady actor when it comes to free software.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@zygoon Sorry, I modified the phrasing in order to make it explicit that not throwing any hard truths :-)
The most recent example that raises my concerns is uutils:
1. Not everything has to be GPL
2. There's no things wrong using Rust or doing a Rust rewrite.
3. Cheapest overall R&D cost on doing that would be:
3a. Use compatible license, which is GPLv3 and look up from the sources.
3b. Use GPLv2 which can be deployed as a blob pretty much everywhere, and last GPLv2 snapshot of GNU utilities as a reference.
Instead money is invested on not having to use GPL.
Everybody can do what they want but if I were to install Ubuntu before doing that I'd want to understand motivations and goals in technical decisions such as uutils.
The most recent example that raises my concerns is uutils:
1. Not everything has to be GPL
2. There's no things wrong using Rust or doing a Rust rewrite.
3. Cheapest overall R&D cost on doing that would be:
3a. Use compatible license, which is GPLv3 and look up from the sources.
3b. Use GPLv2 which can be deployed as a blob pretty much everywhere, and last GPLv2 snapshot of GNU utilities as a reference.
Instead money is invested on not having to use GPL.
Everybody can do what they want but if I were to install Ubuntu before doing that I'd want to understand motivations and goals in technical decisions such as uutils.
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Zygmunt Krynicki
zygoon@fosstodon.org@jarkko isn't this because rust people use MPL for linking freedom? I don't do rust but I think it's just the ecosystem standard.
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Jarkko Sakkinen
jarkko
@zygoon Library crates are like that yes but executables can be whatever. And if the concern is that there might come a day that some of the code might be outsourced to a library crate, even CLA would be a more sane idea IMHO :-) At least the end product have likely have shipped with less bugs.
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Zygmunt Krynicki
zygoon@fosstodon.org@jarkko and what's the issue if the library (crate?) and the executable have the same license?
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