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What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would understand if Canonical want a new cow to milk, but why are developers even agreeing to this? Are they out of their minds?? Do they actually want companies to steal their code? Or is this some reverse-uno move I don't see yet? I cannot fathom any FOSS project not using the AGPL anymore. It's like they're painting their faces with "here, take my stuff and don't contribute anything back, that's totally fine"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bruh instead of all this speculation, you guys could have just looked it up.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/discussions/4358#discussioncomment-8027681

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

There is a big difference between what someone says they are doing vs why they are actually doing it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Well the dev said that he does not care about the license. He wanted to create a coreutils alternative with better concurency using Rust as a pet project. He had even stated that he was not interested in the MIT vs GPL drama, yet people here were acting like children over it.

People think it's some kind of Canonical evil master plan, yet it's just some random dude slapping a license on his cool new code, without really thinking about it. Also this conspiracy does not make sense at so many levels. For one Canonical would shoot themselves into their foot if they created their own proprietary coreutils, because admins would not want to deal with non-portable scripts. Also there are already the BSD utils, so if they wanted to create their own fork, they would have already done that by now. They won't because they prefer free labor from FOSS devs.