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Re:Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils by turtleyacht on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:51AM (#43780213)
If this rewrite is indicative of other rewrites, we'll see a license change from GPL [1] to MIT.

"Differences with GNU are treated as bugs." - https://github.com/uutils/coreutils#goals

That's promising. Wouldn't it be annoying though, to have to keep things bug-for-bug compatible on a green-field project? That priority may be the first compromise, and divergence is inevitable.

(If few report edge cases and there's no fuzzing.)

[1] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils?tab=GPL-3.0-1-ov-file

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