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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:41PM (#34781960)
How does that help when I want to work on the thing actually running on my machine?
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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by charcircuit on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:53PM (#34782107)
And how does GNU coreutils being GPL help you if the ls you have didn't come with source? Even if the ls you have is a fork of GNU coreutils's ls there is nothing you can do to get the source. The FSF can't either. But the FSF can stop it from being distributed and collect money from damages.
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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @12:31PM (#34792812)
At a minimum, it tilts the scales towards you getting source in the first place.
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