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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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Every time this comes up, I see people complaining about the license, and I have an urge every time to start a project anew, or to find yet another project which re-writes coreutils in Rust but licensed with GPLv3.
Today I finally gathered enough urge to... do a search in Kagi. No. There is no such project.
Shall we start one? Even with just a stub it'll be a start. Anyone?
Well, MIT projects can be forked into a new GPLv3 project, right? If Canonical cared, they could have done that to assuage this concern.
I think it's a valid concern. Pushover licenses are bad. But even if a GPL Rust coreutils project exists (I actually have one, but I don't have the same goals), it seems unlikely that Canonical would be bothered to pivot to it.