What's even harder is doing that while trying to avoid the GPL, so doing that without reading the original source code.
uutils would be so much better imo if it was GPL and took direct inspiration from the coreutils source code.
uutils would be so much better imo if it was GPL and took direct inspiration from the coreutils source code.
It does not matter if it's in the GPL explicitly or not since we're talking about uutils and their stance on it, and they've written that:
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/blob/6b8a5a15b4f077f8609...
> we cannot accept any changes based on the GNU source code [..]. It is however possible to look at other implementations under a BSD or MIT license like Apple's implementation or OpenBSD.
The wording of that clearly implies that you should not look at GNU source code in order to contribute to uutils.
Hmmmm....