alt Hacker NewsNot a fan of this trend of "cleaning" GPL licensed software and releasing under permissive licenses. Also why I'm not a fan of UUtils nor Canonical's early adoption of it in Ubuntu.
The intent here is extraction of all the value provided by copyleft projects without the obligation to give back. Wether it's technically legal or not, it's disgusting behavior IMO.
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trimbo • today at 4:55 AM
> Not a fan of this trend of "cleaning" GPL licensed software > Wether it's technically legal or not, it's disgusting behavior IMO.
GNU was originally developed to "clean" UNIX from the AT&T license.
That’s explicitly not what’s happening with uutils; they have contributed fixes and test cases back to upstream