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		db48x 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Date bug in Rust-based coreutils affects Ubuntu 25... It could be a conspiracy on the part of Canonical, sure. People have hidden motives all the time. Sometimes you have to deduce their motives from their actions, while ignoring their words. I don't think there’s any serious evidence of it being true though. All we can see right now is that there are a surprising number of MIT-licensed packages replacing GPL-licensed packages. It could be a coincidence.

pepoluan 3 days ago [–]

Some of us in the Enterprise and Governmental sector try hard to avoid software with viral licenses.

We sigh in relief every time we see a software that we rely upon changes/adds non-viral license such as MIT, Apache, MPL, BSD, and so on.

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