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What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?
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That sounds a lot more confrontational and less diplomatic.
The ticket was actually indirectly asking it, by explaining the potential problems with non-copyleft. They just added "If you plan to carry on..." to introduce a compromise, which actually allowed for at least some minor change to be made, and made it clear that the different license is intentional and not just for lack of awareness (which would imply the devs have no intention on switching).
Somehow you added the "MUST" to this sentence, but not to the first one.. even though the github issue did not say they MUST, instead it even used the word "please" and appealed to having some deference to the GNU coreutils.
At least this issue managed to get a change through for clarity.. I don't think you would have gotten anything at all with the other approach.