Ignoring the subject matter, that's a terrible LLM slop article. Odd phrasing and extra words like Zanonical all around. Just a wholly unreliable source for anything if they allow that on their platform.
Snap was just one side thing. Coreutils is, well, core. Diverging on that is like diverging on systemd: if Mint does that, they may as well split from Ubuntu completely, as the dependency hell with Ubuntu packages will be completely unmanageable.
In theory I think it's a fine exercise rewriting tools like this. I'm not an expert on anything, least of all licenses, but going from GNU's GPL-3 license to uutils MIT license is perhaps the most noteworthy:
Unlike the GPL, the MIT license does not require that derivative works be open source. Developers can incorporate MIT-licensed code into their projects without being required to release the source code of their entire project.
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Jinna@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
Ignoring the subject matter, that's a terrible LLM slop article. Odd phrasing and extra words like Zanonical all around. Just a wholly unreliable source for anything if they allow that on their platform.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
Hmm... Time to go back to Debian. Too bad, I liked Mint.
merci3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
If you enjoyed Mint, what about moving to LMDE?
usernameusername@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Can't Mint just choose not to incorporate them? They did that with snaps
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
Snap was just one side thing. Coreutils is, well, core. Diverging on that is like diverging on systemd: if Mint does that, they may as well split from Ubuntu completely, as the dependency hell with Ubuntu packages will be completely unmanageable.
usernameusername@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
That makes sense, thank you (I'm slow)
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 4 pts · 1y
In theory I think it's a fine exercise rewriting tools like this. I'm not an expert on anything, least of all licenses, but going from GNU's GPL-3 license to uutils MIT license is perhaps the most noteworthy: