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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by tcmart14 on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:29PM (#38857712)
I may be wrong here, but my understanding is they don't use GNU utils, at least not any more. They use old FreeBSD utils, which is permissively licensed.
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Re:Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils by hollerith on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:32PM (#38857759)
You are not wrong. (Apple never shipped GNU coreutils or GNU tar. It did ship GCC long ago and maybe related packages like binutils.)
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