Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)

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The uutils project announced tonight the release of Rust Coreutils 0.3, another step forward for this Rust version alternative to GNU Coreutils that has been attracting a lot of interest lately due to Ubuntu 25.10 now using it by default.

Rust Coreutils 0.3 brings improved GNU test suite compatibility with now passing 532 tests, or nearly an 84% pass rate. There is improved error handling and other updates to better match the behavior of GNU Coreutils... Such as the recently noted date issue breaking Ubuntu 25.10's unattended upgrades.

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[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I like copyleft and have convinced about 7 projects to convert to copyleft. but in this case its such a small project i don't really see anyone turning it into some proprietary project and the project losing a lot of contributions because of it. Also even the FSF says that permissive licenses might be better when you implementing standards (And i think you could argue this project is at least partially a implementation of posix).

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Do you have a link to the FSF saying that?

[-] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Why do you ask?

grok came up with this:

Some libraries implement free data formats that are competing against restricted data formats, such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM (which competes against MPEG-4 video). The success of the free format requires allowing many proprietary application programs to link in the code to handle the format. For instance, we wanted nonfree media players, especially appliances, to include the code for Ogg Vorbis as well as MP3.

In these special situations, if you are aiming to convince proprietary application developers to use the library for the free format, you would need to make that easy by licensing the library under a weak license, such as the Apache License 2.0.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

First off, thank you for that.

That the FSF sees the value in permissive licenses in promoting the success of free data formats is an important calibration.

I do not believe the tolerance for permissive licenses extends to standards in general. They do have the LGPL though.

Given that the GPL was created explicitly to license the GNU implementation of the POSIX standard, we for sure know where they stand on POSIX specifically.

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