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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by phkahler on Monday February 13, 2023 @07:55PM (#34783594)
>> Meaning, if there is GNU coreutils around but no liberally licensed alternative, there will be a market for alternatives that proprietary vendors can use. Thus, somewhere out there will maintain a proprietary coreutils library and charge money for it.

And where is that?

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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by TylerE on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:06PM (#34783694)
BSD user land?
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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by peoplefromibiza on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:42AM (#34786955)
quoting Thus, somewhere out there will maintain a proprietary coreutils library and charge money for it

BSD is not proprietary

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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by est31 on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:49PM (#34784047)
I think people who deeply care about avoiding GPL use BSDs instead, so they swap out the entire OS (say some console vendor). As for coreutils, they aren't that important that one has to use them in particular. There are plenty of devices using Busybox, which uses GPL as well but one that is less offensive to many companies. I'm not sure what Android is doing, it might not have executables by default?

Coreutils might not be important enough for people to pay for its maintenance, as is seen by people leaving the proprietary unixes. Idk. That sentence was mostly there to explain my more general argument.

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Re:Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust) by fomine3 on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:21PM (#34784348)
Toybox is a BSDL alternative to busybox
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