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

Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:36:53 +0300

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 05:40:29PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, 2026-07-13 at 12:54:40 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >> Replacing strongly copyleft software with permissively licensed software
> >> […]
> >> That's part of why we are seeing these efforts to replace GnuPG with
> >> Seqoia, […] for
> >> generally anything GNU-licensed with anything BSD/Expat-licensed.
> >
> > This is again and still a wild mischaracterization. :/
> >
> > <https://lore.kernel.org/distributions/[email protected]/>
> >
> > To (partially) quote:
> 
> I'm not denying people have other arguments too, including your
> technical/social arguments.

...and you did get to the bottom of Guillem's e-mail, right? :)

> [Guillem Jover <[email protected]> writes:]
> > (BTW and AFAIR most of Sequoia components are either LGPL or GPL.)

sq's debian/copyright file says LGPL-2+ and GPL-2+. And yes, that is
also true of many of the Rust crates it depends on.

And yes, I do realize that you also listed other examples, but
the first one you picked (maybe because it has GNU in its name ;)),
the one that has IMHO, so far, gained the widest traction, is invalid :)

G'luck,
Peter

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