On Mon, Jul 13, 2026 at 10:30:44PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
I think a Debian core without any remaining (enforcable strongly)
copyleft components a not unlikely scenario in the next ~10 years. The
move towards that has been happening for many years already, using
various arguments including changing to "better software". bash, gawk,
wget, libgcrypt, info, etc. The market forces are there to promote
this.
Maybe it will take 20 years rather than 10, but I feel this is
inevitable. I don't see it as evil but merely a logical progression. I
mostly enjoy this too: older Debian contained a lot of unsustainable
things. bash and gawk are slow or complex compared to dash and mawk.
mawk is GPL-2. I don't understand why you're bringing it up here.
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