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

On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 10:30:44PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>I think a Debian core without any remaining (enforcable strongly)
>copyleft components a not unlikely scenario in the next ~10 years.  The
>move towards that has been happening for many years already, using
>various arguments including changing to "better software".  bash, gawk,
>wget, libgcrypt, info, etc.  The market forces are there to promote
>this.
>
>Maybe it will take 20 years rather than 10, but I feel this is
>inevitable.  I don't see it as evil but merely a logical progression.  I
>mostly enjoy this too: older Debian contained a lot of unsustainable
>things.  bash and gawk are slow or complex compared to dash and mawk.

mawk is GPL-2.  I don't understand why you're bringing it up here.