Comment by kibwen
14 days ago
The irony here being that GNU's coreutils themselves originated as rewrites, from back when BSD's copyright status was still legally unclear.
14 days ago
The irony here being that GNU's coreutils themselves originated as rewrites, from back when BSD's copyright status was still legally unclear.
Understandable as GNU was founded on software freedom. I guess one could argue that the Rust rewrite is to establish some kind of higher standard for correctness.