Only downside is the MIT license, but they are doing good work. Glad they started the project. It also makes it easier to integrate onto other operating systems thanks to the rust toolchain.
Pedants will be quick to point out that the original sudo is also pushover licensed, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is still a downside in the Rust version as well.
I’m a big fan of gpl everything, but when sudo was getting installed in everything the argument that “this great security technology needs to be permissively licensed so there will be no reason for companies to not make its use standard practice” held a lot of weight!
Only downside is the MIT license, but they are doing good work. Glad they started the project. It also makes it easier to integrate onto other operating systems thanks to the rust toolchain.
Pedants will be quick to point out that the original sudo is also pushover licensed, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is still a downside in the Rust version as well.
I’m a big fan of gpl everything, but when sudo was getting installed in everything the argument that “this great security technology needs to be permissively licensed so there will be no reason for companies to not make its use standard practice” held a lot of weight!
What happened in 1997 🤔
We don’t talk about 1997. It might hear. 😱