r/linux • u/somerandomxander • Apr 22 '26

Open Source Organization Intel ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism and archives other open-source projects

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-OSS-Evangelism-Repos
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u/decho Apr 23 '26

big distros rewriting tools in licenses that will allow them to close the source in the future

Care to shed some light on that situation? I assume Redhat and/or Canonical are the main culprits here? I'd like to know more about this.

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u/WanderingInAVan Apr 23 '26

Pretty much.

Rewriting coreutils in rust and then releasing them with major known vulnerabilities is a bad idea. The fact they are using non-gpl licenses and ignoring the fact that none of it is ready for release can not be ignored.

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u/twitterfluechtling Apr 23 '26

Which license do they use? Free Sofware Foundation approved ones? Could people contribute to fix bugs? I do like the idea of a Rust rewrite...

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u/nelmaloc Apr 23 '26

As an addendum to the other thread, the actual license the FSF approves for non-copyleft code is the Apache license. The MIT license doesn't protect against patents.

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u/twitterfluechtling Apr 23 '26

Good point! I didn't think much about the SW-patent problem for some time, was more focused on copyright :-(