Re: Concerning uniliateral decision making with respect to the coreutils package

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:35:11 +0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 12:54:40PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>I believe that having a (largely) strongly copyleft OS is part of a
>defence against commercial/government subjugations.
>
>Replacing strongly copyleft software with permissively licensed software
>leads towards a different path, and with OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD around I
>don't believe Debian should compete with that.  I fear there could even
>be a majority among voting DD's who believe the opposite today, though.

Yes, I would expect a majority among both DDs and Debian contributors in 
general doesn't have a strong preference for strongly copyleft software 
over free software in general.

>That's part of why we are seeing these efforts to replace GnuPG with
>Seqoia, CoreUtils with UUtils, wget with (w)curl, and so on for
>generally anything GNU-licensed with anything BSD/Expat-licensed.

This is a conspiracy theory.

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