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Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by thesuperbigfrog on Friday November 06, 2026 @05:31PM (#50399375)
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by solyin on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:00PM (#50399659)
That is the problem. MIT isn't GPL. In our new AI powered future, we want the source so we can fix it ourselves.
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by criemen on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:11PM (#50399787)
Well, in the AI-powered future, you can reverse engineer and patch about anything without the source, too. That's not an argument against the GPL, but everything you can download is now effectively source-available for a modest fee to an inference provider.
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by burnte on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:18PM (#50399837)
MIT is a source code license. If you have MIT licensed source code then you already have the source code and can fix it yourself. No different than GPL.
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by gatlin on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:06PM (#50401514)
It is materially different to the GPL and inferior in all such ways.
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by dekhn on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:57AM (#50406038)
I think it's time to recognize that copyleft as an idea is not great and LGPL makes the license even worse. I want licenses that don't have a core philosophy that attempts to overturn existing copyright.
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by burnte on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:10PM (#50407117)
I disagree on both points. The only difference is the lack of a requirement to share your changes under MIT. That makes it only inferior depending on your perspective. You are entirely allowed to feel it's inferior, but it's not FACTUALLY inferior, just different.
Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by thesuperbigfrog on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:18PM (#50399839)
> That is the problem. MIT isn't GPL. In our new AI powered future, we want the source so we can fix it ourselves.

GPL would be ideal, MIT is okay, but in our new AI-powered future, we may not even need the source code:

https://bramble-apps.github.io/

Maybe all software will become open source or free software?

Re:The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standar... by jeremyjh on Friday November 06, 2026 @06:26PM (#50399902)
Sudo is already MIT. What are you concerned about here? Why hasn't it already happened?