this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
28 points (91.2% liked)

Linux

14216 readers
360 users here now

A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)

Also, check out:

Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Ategon@programming.dev
anzo@programming.dev
dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev
28
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 4 days ago by cm0002@lemdro.id to c/linux@programming.dev
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Providing fodder for the "ermagerd, rust is evil" crowd, even though it has nothing to do with rust.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No it's just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Got it. Andrew Gallant is extremely stupid. Will keep that in mind.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev -1 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh then it must be because of the MIT license!

/s

[–] Papierkorb@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] eutampieri@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

The term "cuck license" for MIT and similar licenses is a good one IMO.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I agree with you on that one.