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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I would argue a move away from GPL is a bad idea. I am surprised Ubuntu explicitly mentioned licensing, and not technical reasons, as a reason for this move.

EDIT: I misread the point about Canonical focusing on licensing as their main driver for the move.

[–] maxwellfire@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They didn't mention licensing as the reason for the move. The community members in the discourse thread mentioned licensing as their reason for opposing the move. Canonical itself mentioned memory safety and speed as the main reasons, saying the licensing wasn't part of the reason why

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I stand corrected. Thanks!

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

Seems like one of the areas where Rust is least pressing, but I guess if uutils does become dominant it will be a lot easier to work on the code and add new features & tools.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 10 months ago

Nice. Im surprised they care about speed when they push their shitty snap apps, but sure.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well I’m not a fan of this. Fork it, GPL it, then swap it.

I’ve used Kubuntu as a daily driver for over 10 years but the stench of enshittification is getting to strong these days. Time to move on I guess.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What on earth are you talking about? There's no enshittification here.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Step 3: The new word loses all meaning