• istdaslol@feddit.org
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    5 hours ago

    Isn’t Rust a Mozilla project, and with the direction they are heading it’s not long until Rust is considered non-free and we‘ll be forever stuck with C

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      3 hours ago

      Which Mozilla projects started out as free and are now non-free, i.e. no longer under an open source (or even viral open source) licence?

    • Mia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      No, it started as a Mozilla project; it’s been independent for a long time now.
      If anything I expect Mozilla to be among the smaller contributors nowadays from a purely monetary standpoint.

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      It started there, but now it’s controlled by the rust foundation. If you wanna worry about licensing uutils is under an MIT license unlike GNU coreutils which is under GPL