Ubuntu Plans to Swap GNU Coreutils for Rust
by hubie from SoylentNews on (#6W3K2)
Frosty Piss writes:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/
Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in future versions of Ubuntu - 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, 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. The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license.
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