Comment by leni536 4 hours ago What's wrong with them using the coreutils tests? 3 comments leni536 Reply RichardLake 3 hours ago If they followed the license nothing. My uninformed knowledge is that the rust based rewrite is MIT, the originals are GPL, and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL. leni536 3 hours ago > and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.Why is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses. heinrich5991 3 hours ago But you should be able to use a GPL test suite on an MIT-licensed program (or even a proprietary one, without the program needing to be under the GPL.
RichardLake 3 hours ago If they followed the license nothing. My uninformed knowledge is that the rust based rewrite is MIT, the originals are GPL, and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL. leni536 3 hours ago > and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.Why is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses. heinrich5991 3 hours ago But you should be able to use a GPL test suite on an MIT-licensed program (or even a proprietary one, without the program needing to be under the GPL.
leni536 3 hours ago > and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.Why is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses.
heinrich5991 3 hours ago But you should be able to use a GPL test suite on an MIT-licensed program (or even a proprietary one, without the program needing to be under the GPL.
If they followed the license nothing. My uninformed knowledge is that the rust based rewrite is MIT, the originals are GPL, and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.
> and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.
Why is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses.
But you should be able to use a GPL test suite on an MIT-licensed program (or even a proprietary one, without the program needing to be under the GPL.