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Frosty Piss [soylentnews.org] writes:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/ [theregister.com]

Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils [gnu.org] with Rust [rust-lang.org] ones in future versions of Ubuntu [ubuntu.com] - which also means changing the software license. Canonical plans to replace the current core utilities – from the GNU project and implemented in C – with the newer uutils suite [github.com], which is written in Rust. Rather than technical issues, most concerns raised in the discussion on Ubuntu Discourse are about licensing. As a product of the GNU project, the existing coreutils are licensed under the GPL – specifically, GPL 3 [gnu.org]. The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license [opensource.org].

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