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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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.