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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by Vaushite on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @11:11PM (#50375068)
Licensing is downstream of software existing. The person who actually writes software gets to make the license. If you want a GPL one you have to make that.
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by bikvfeee on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:06PM (#50386876)
It already exists.
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by Vaushite on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:13PM (#50388089)
Is it better?
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by cpach on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:34PM (#50399401)
Where…?
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by Shish2k on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:53PM (#50399594)
This conversation is very reminiscent of

"if you want people to use open chat protocols, you need to make user-friendly clients"

"we already have irssi"

the vast majority of people abandon IRC for discord

shocked Pikachu face from the free software community

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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by nsoam on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:26PM (#50399904)
It’s much worse: they created Matrix.
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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by warkdarrior on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:03PM (#50399687)
The default sudo (written in C) has an MIT license: https://www.sudo.ws/about/license/

Where is this GPL-licensed sudo that already exists?

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