"Also, some contributions had carried comments and code over from GNU coreutils,
against our own rule that uutils is an original implementation.
We reviewed the tree and rewrote what we found, in comments
and in the few functions that followed the C too closely"
From the latest uutils 0.12 release announcement:
"Also, some contributions had carried comments and code over from GNU coreutils, against our own rule that uutils is an original implementation. We reviewed the tree and rewrote what we found, in comments and in the few functions that followed the C too closely"
Interestingly Microsoft has released a version with this code already.