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. You can check https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html Note that the FSF sadly also pushes non-free licenses for documentation and highly unpractical ones for other purposes (AGPL) that practically only sees adoption for dual-licensed software (AGPL + Proprietary) to make the AGPL version a "shareware" or "demo" version that is nearly impossible to use (e.g., Oracle's BerkeleyDB which most open source distributions seem to have stopped using as a result of the AGPL license). There's also the not helpful GPL-2 vs GPL-3 schism which could probably by largely fixed by a GPL-2-compatible GPL-4 (at least for GPL-3-or- later software). Note that the GPL-3 also pushed many to use non-copyleft licenses like MIT or Apache-2. A GPL-2-compatible GPL-4 might bring more people back to copyleft licensing, but the FSF seems to care too much. Ansgar
