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Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well presumably there are at least some performance and safety benefits to using these new alternatives. Otherwise it's just a blatant license dodge.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

In that case, nothing is stopping Debian from using uutils as it is; they can't really "re-license" it anyway since the original code will continue to be MIT-licensed.