Ideally there should have been no tickets at all if all that's happening is a program being ported to another language.
replyThis isn't a port - it's a re-implementation without any use of the original source.
replyThat's also not all that's happening. It's also making improvements like better internalization support, better error messages, and a small handful of other extensions.
I have had to tell them repeatedly to stop copying tests verbatim, including the original comments from GNU coreutils. So I doubt this is true, which is frustrating.
replyWhat's wrong with them using the coreutils tests?
replyIf they followed the license nothing. My uninformed knowledge is that the rust based rewrite is MIT, the originals are GPL, and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.
reply> and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.
replyWhy is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses.
Capitalism.
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