You all have the right to write #FreeSoftware, and you write whatever you want.
And when you look at what software other people are writing, keep it in mind, that they have the right to write whatever software they feel like.
They even have all rights to license it under #MIT or #BSD licenses, because everyone has the right to make objectively wrong decisions, too 
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jjo1hv/a_tremendous_feature_of_open_source_software_is/
Related the current drama about uutils being MIT:
Didn't the EUPL happened, among other reasons, because the GPL was funny with EU law?
Like, I get that bigcorp bad and believe me when I say I love to see them fucked but maybe the drama is a bit overblow.
#uutils - #Ubuntu remplace ses commandes #Linux par du #Rust
Ces petites commandes Linux qu’on utilise tous au quotidien pourraient bientôt connaître leur plus grande évolution depuis des décennies. En effet, #Canonical (la société derrière Ubuntu) explore activement le remplacement des #GNU Core Utilities, écrites en #C, par ‘uutils’, leurs équivalents en Rust.
https://korben.info/uutils-ubuntu-remplace-ses-commandes-linux-par-du-rust.html
The MIT license is the default in Rust… but it’s just a coincidence that suits the Rust Foundation’s corporate owners.
You need to have a GitHub account to publish to crates.io… but it’s just a coincidence that suits the Rust Foundation’s corporate owners.
Uutils… it’s amazing these coincidences keep happening.
The Mozilla Foundation & the Google money is Rust’s “Don’t Build the Torment Nexus”.
I see a lot of questions asking why #uutils would use MIT instead of GPL if the license does not matter. This requires some understanding of the pros and cons of different open source licenses; the history of the open source Rust ecosystem; and the uutils project itself.
Software written in Rust is very distributed in nature because of Cargo and the Crates repository. It is very common to pull small abstractions of a project and release them as an open source library for all developers to use.
The drama over the #RustLang #uutils project using the MIT license instead of GPL is absurd. Some are making the assumption that GNU coreutils was the original implementation of coreutils—it isn't—and therefore uutils should have been GPL. Or that uutils is the first non-GPL coreutils implementation—it isn't—and will be the target of EEE (hyperbolic fiction). Software licenses cannot be retroactively revoked, nor can the original or any other repository fork be retroactively closed.
I really wish #uutils was under a copyleft license. It’s cool but using it just makes it easier for mega corps to lock down things even more. Yah #rust / #rustlang is faster and more secure, but #GPL is better for society.
If we were using uutils in 2005 we wouldn’t have the free routers that we have now. I don’t want to think what could be lost if we just drop all things #GPL for mit license stuff. It’s just helping megacorps at societies expense.
Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995.
Ubuntu is providing a tool to switch to uutils and sudo-rs. It is awesome and clearly a good move. The license change however is debatable.
uutils is a reimplementation of GNU utils in Rust, see this great article https://uutils.github.io/blog/2025-02-extending/.
sudo-rs is a reimplementation of sudo in Rust, see this great article https://ferrous-systems.com/blog/testing-sudo-rs/.
Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools
