2026-09-15 22:47 UTC
You could understand if you used a materialist analysis.
Canonical sells products and support to corporations. The gpl is a problem for corporations because it requires that they contribute their changes back into the commons, creating additional overhead in many ways.
Canonical is funding, prioritizing and providing support for a rewrite of a gpl project in a different language with a more permissive license.
Put two and two together. Canonical is bankrolling and pushing something that materially benefits them.
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@paraproto@szmer.info 2026-09-16 09:07
But from all the things why core-utils? I don’t think it is common to need changes in core-utils. Now with this MIT version it may certainly be needed, because of broken compatibility. So it feels like instead of doing nothing (because they work as is) and using GNU core-utils they switch to MIT core-utils that are slightly incompatible and because of that need work. I would assume that it will certainly provide patches for MIT core-utils, but I am sure it will just make another platform target for scripts like macOS. Some GPL projects will change their scripts to make them work with Ubuntu. I guess corporations will corporate.