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

On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 12:06:57PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>Let's say in 10 years that companies have sponsored BSD/Expat-rewrites
>(possibly LLM-assisted) of essentially all common GPL'd tools, and has
>showed multi-year sustained QA and release process of those projects.
>Compare OpenSSL, Clang or UUtils as inspirational projects.
>
>At the same time, development of GNU coreutils, sed, tar, gzip etc have
>slowed down and are in maintainance mode.
>
>It would then be easy to make the argument that those rewrites are
>"technically excellent".

Yes.

>Do you think there could be some reason beyond "technical excellence"
>that would make us want to keep using the (strong) copyleft projects?

No.

>What's left of the spirit of the DSG and DFSG if copyleft software is
>replaced?

I understand that "the spirit of something" is explicitly not codified 
anywhere so it's hard to discuss what shoiuld it imply, but I doubt that 
"strong copyleft" is included in it for most of the project.

-- 
WBR, wRAR

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