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   Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 07:24:15 JST Brodie Robertson

   It's not I won't tell you why, it's I don't know why but I heard someone say it's bad so it's bad

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 07:39:34 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • sigma burgir :ab1nzyblob2:

     @yo The most convincing argument I've heard so far

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     sigma burgir :ab1nzyblob2: (yo@kitty.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 07:39:47 JST sigma burgir :ab1nzyblob2:

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     @BrodieOnLinux@mstdn.social MIT sucks because it doesnt have a cool spirit animal or a gigachad representing it. (cough Richard M Stallman cough)

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     waffles :gentoo: (cwalkpinoy@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 18:56:03 JST waffles :gentoo:

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     @BrodieOnLinux I think part of their goal is to be compatible with macos and macos isn't allowed to ship gpl coreutils so MIT makes sense for this

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 18:56:03 JST 翠星石

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     • waffles :gentoo:
     @CwalkPinoy @BrodieOnLinux 10/10 disinformation.
     
     apple is permitted to ship any version of GNU coreutils in any OS they want.
     
     In the past they were happy to ship GPLv2-or-later GNU coreutils with macos and I believe they still do.
     
     apple won't ship GPLv3-or-later coreutils, as apple doesn't want the users to have freedom (an odd concept, as GPLv3 contains more permissions that GPLv2, not less and GPLv3 actually permits tivotization (for business-only hardware)) - I guess apple felt they could get away with infringing the GPLv2 if needed in the past, but improved wording in the GPLv3 dashed any hopes of that.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 18:57:16 JST 翠星石

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     • sigma burgir :ab1nzyblob2:
     @BrodieOnLinux @yo MIT expat sucks as it's a poorly written license that misses many problems in software (for example patents) and it contains permission to sublicense, meaning that it permits putting absolutely any proprietary license on the software and removing all of the freedom by making the software 100% proprietary.