[grg0]

Your points are valid and the comparisons between liberal and copyleft licenses have been discussed a million times. But scroll up to the original context here: what's the advantage of rewriting large swathes of critical OS infra that already works fine?

[mustache_kimono]

> what's the advantage of rewriting large swathes of critical OS infra that already works fine?

If you don't get it, then, it's not for you.

The reality -- the project became a way for new Rust devs to get their first Github commit. It became popular. MIT/Apache 2 is the default for new Rust projects.

But I think you need to also consider the downside risk. Because I don't see one. uutils are valuable only because they exactly replicate the GNU version. You'll always have GNU!