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[–] starman@programming.dev 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Most of that stuff is MIT/Apache licensed unlike programs from GNU. Interesting.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be cool if the GNU project sponsored a new updated 'standard' set of tools though.

[–] dsemy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why would they? The “old” tools work very well, are well known and are likely used in millions of scripts.

The new tools will have more bugs, unfamiliar options and unexpected behavior (due to them being new), and the improvements current “modern” alternatives bring to the table are often very minor.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I'd expect they'd 'adopt' the tools and redistribute them under the GPL, if they did.

[–] Schmeckinger@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Probably because that's basically the default license rust projects use and a lot of this stuff is made in rust.