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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.
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What's wrong with them using the coreutils tests?
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If 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.
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> and you can't include GPL code in a MIT licensed project without making it GPL.

Why is that? The tests are not linked to the distributed binaries. You can also distribute project sources with mixed licenses.

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