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Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by beatgammit » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:20 PM UTC

arghwhat wrote: post #25

namewasmypw wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

`unsafe` is already very prevalent in the ecosystem and this is a big point of contention. https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/289

This would be anecdotal, and caused massive stir in the community when it was realized.

And a lot of the usages were promptly fixed when people made a stink about it.

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by daenz » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:21 PM UTC

Unless Rust suffers some catastrophic leadership or design choices, I'm convinced it will be the next language to "eat the world."

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by jacquesm » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:24 PM UTC

sstangl wrote: post #9

If this started with BusyBox translated from C to Rust, is this code also under the GPL, as is BusyBox? I don't see any LICENSE or COPYING files in the repo.

Yes, it is a derived work, automatic translation (or even any kind of translation) does not create a new work.

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by berkut » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:24 PM UTC

garmaine wrote: post #5

Missing license.

Which would surely need to be GPL given it seems to be an auto-converted version of BusyBox, so I would have thought that makes it a derivative?

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by harikb » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

If a GPL code is auto-translated to another language, shouldn't the fork have the same GPL license? Or does the new author get to put a new license?

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by blotter_paper » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:26 PM UTC

daenz wrote: post #32

Unless Rust suffers some catastrophic leadership or design choices, I'm convinced it will be the next language to "eat the world."

Rust + Wasm

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by rwmj » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:35 PM UTC

harikb wrote: post #35

If a GPL code is auto-translated to another language, shouldn't the fork have the same GPL license? Or does the new author get to put a new license?

It should be GPL.

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by miguelmota » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

blotter_paper wrote: post #36

daenz wrote: post #32

Unless Rust suffers some catastrophic leadership or design choices, I'm convinced it will be the next language to "eat the world."

Rust + Wasm

Agreed. Rust has incredibly great support for WASM.

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by christiansakai » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:42 PM UTC

banachtarski wrote: post #15

christiansakai wrote: post #3

What is this used for? I am interested in contributing

Out of curiosity, how does one become interested in contributing to a thing when one doesn't even know what the thing is?

Fair point. It looks cool so I am interested. I am also a Rust beginner

Re: Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust

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Post by christiansakai » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 11:43 PM UTC

woodrowbarlow wrote: post #23

christiansakai wrote: post #3

What is this used for? I am interested in contributing

busybox provides coreutils, with a focus on being as stripped-down as possible. in other words, busybox provides binaries like cat, ls, nano, sudo, etc. (basically enough to be able to do shell scripting) for use in memory-constrained embedded linux systems like internet routers or in-vehicle infotainment systems.

Gotcha. Might be out of my league