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Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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MIT instead of GPL ๐
Using MIT license means the developers cannot look at GNU source code when writing code for uutils. This feels like a unnecessary hurdle given that uutils wants to be 100% compatible with GNU tools.
It's not quite that bad. They say
You are totally allowed to look at it. For example if there was some weird behaviour that you couldn't work out, you could look at the GNU code to understand it.
What you can't do is closely base your code on the GNU code. I.e. you can't just translate it from C into Rust.