Introduction Following on from Carefully But Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu, Ubuntu will be the first major Linux distribution to adopt sudo-rs as the default implementation of sudo, in partnership with the Trifecta Tech Foundation The change will be effective from the release of Ubuntu 25.10. You can see the Trifecta Tech Foundation’s announcement here. What is sudo-rs? sudo-rs is a reimplementation of the traditional sudo tool, written in Rust. It’s being developed by the Trifecta Tech Founda...
sudo is MIT also (or something that looks like MIT at least). https://www.sudo.ws/about/license/
The more critical part wrt license is real coreutils which they also want to replace.
This is what I had for posting at 1am. Thanks for the clarification. Yeah I just assumed it was the same situation as coreutils.