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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by fanf2 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @10:20AM (#38855073)
A fair number of the gnu utilities were originally written as part of the 4.3BSD Net/2 effort to get rid of AT&T code. When the gnu project adopted the code it got relicensed from BSD to GPL.
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by Zambyte on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @02:29PM (#38858620)
Relicensed or sublicensed? Anything can be relicensed (by the copyright holder), because that is outside the terms of a license. Neither the terms of the BSD license nor GPL are relevant for that.
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