Is this the end of Debian as GNU/Linux? The main Rust toolchain isn't GNU, gccrs is still incomplete and most Rust rewrites of existing GNU libraries and tools use MIT or other non GPL licenses.
Is this the end of Debian as GNU/Linux? The main Rust toolchain isn't GNU, gccrs is still incomplete and most Rust rewrites of existing GNU libraries and tools use MIT or other non GPL licenses.
The main python and perl toolchains were never maintained by GNU either. Python has never been distributed under a GPL license. I'm not 100% sure of the licensing history of perl but I think it's always been available under a non-GPL license (as well as being under a GPL license - at least recently - not sure if that was always the case).
This doesn't seem like a noteworthy change to the degree to which GNU/Linux is an accurate name... though there are lots of things I'd put more importance on than GNU in describing debian (systemd, for instance).
Edit: Looks like Perl 1.0 was under the following non-commercial license, so definitely not always GPL though that now leaves the question of licensing when debian adopted it, if you really care.
> You may copy the perl kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it.
https://github.com/AnaTofuZ/Perl-1.0/blob/master/README.orig
GNU/Linux as a term was kind of a credit-grab by GNU anyway. They never were entirely responsible for the userspace.
But, there are now a lot more replacements for GNU's contributions under non-copyleft licenses, for sure.
It is hard to see it as anything else.