▲ 161 ▼ Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables (www.phoronix.com) submitted 10 months ago by BCBoy911@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml 59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) I understand the sentiment. The move to a permissive license opens the door for these tools to possibly become closed source one day. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] custard_swollower@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago You know that you can change license of software that you own copyright to? You can take GPL code and change it to something else, but you can’t un-GPL existing released code. It’s the same thing with MIT. The only people bound by the license are people who use it because it is licensed to them. The difference is that organisation may develop MIT software without publishing their code. permalink fedilink source parent [+] lol@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 10 months ago That's just it though. The developers can drop out over time, then some other corp can come in and control it, then close source it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] custard_swollower@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago You know that you can change license of software that you own copyright to? You can take GPL code and change it to something else, but you can’t un-GPL existing released code. It’s the same thing with MIT. The only people bound by the license are people who use it because it is licensed to them. The difference is that organisation may develop MIT software without publishing their code. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lol@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 10 months ago That's just it though. The developers can drop out over time, then some other corp can come in and control it, then close source it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 10 months ago That's just it though. The developers can drop out over time, then some other corp can come in and control it, then close source it. permalink fedilink source parent