Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
by russdill on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @12:14PM
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He said if you use it within your org, not if you ship it. Hell, you can even modify coreutils to whatever the hell you want. So long as you aren't distributing the binary, you are under no obligation to provide source or a source offer.
The license states the following[0]:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
If you're using it under your organization, you don't need to ship anything, but if you're shipping something with it, then you must.The same applies if you're hosting a SaaS with AGPL license.
Sorry, but I'm too old for this FUD thing. I neither have the motivation, nor the desire, nor the reason to do it.
[1]: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.txt