Remember, they’re only doing this to change licenses from GPL to some other shit license.
They don’t care about using Rust.
But what is their advantage of using MIT instead of GNU?
I mean I know roughly the difference for the developer, but what does it bring canonical that it is now MIT?
GPLv3 software can’t be used on locked down hardware, you must provide a way to modify and replace the binaries. Maybe they want to sell Ubuntu for embedded/automotive use cases.
Could be a good reason. But I still don’t see whats bad about using MIT in this case. In the worst case the would create a proprietary version of uutils and if people don’t like it they could still use other core utils or distros.
Some people act like they could add a paywall to the coreutils or something