On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 12:54:40PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Ansgar 🙀 <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2026-07-13 at 10:57 +0300, Hakan Bayındır wrote: > >> So, keeping all levels Free (not only Open) is a worthy goal in my eyes. > >> Even if there are other popular alternatives. > > > > I'm happy to inform you that the uutils license is a Free and Open > > source license according to both FSF and Debian. So no problem here. > > Right - although I think the intention could have been to say "strongly > copyleft" and not "Free". > > I believe that having a (largely) strongly copyleft OS is part of a > defence against commercial/government subjugations. > > Replacing strongly copyleft software with permissively licensed software > leads towards a different path, and with OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD around I > don't believe Debian should compete with that. I fear there could even > be a majority among voting DD's who believe the opposite today, though. > That's part of why we are seeing these efforts to replace GnuPG with > Seqoia, CoreUtils with UUtils, wget with (w)curl, and so on for > generally anything GNU-licensed with anything BSD/Expat-licensed.
I can't speak for anyone but myself, so this is only my personal view, not that of any large project, but for me, the effort to replace GnuPG with Sequoia in my workflows (personal and workplace) was motivated only by three things: the historical baggage GnuPG has accumulated WRT command-line syntax, the OpenPGP/LibrePGP schism, and the hoops one has to go through to use it in an unattended setting. Yes, it is possible. Yes, I have done it. Yes, it is much, much easier with SOP/sqop. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: https://www.ringlet.net/roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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