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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: Add util-linux.
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:27:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5hfupfa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871uf7f9rk.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:14:23 +0100")

Hi,

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> skribis:

> Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 3. 'util-linux' uses a lot of licenses. According to
>> 'README.licensing', it uses GPLv3+, GPLv2+, GPLv2, LGPLv2+, BSD with
>> advertising, and Public Domain. GPLv2+ is the default license for code
>> without an explicitly defined license.
>
> Btw, what tools from util-linux is it that you believe are important?
> If the licensing situation is unclear, maybe those could be moved to
> some GNU project (CoreUtils/InetUtils/...?).

Unfortunately, Coreutils is no longer sufficient:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2012-05/msg00101.html

And IIRC the latest Ineutils release lacks a few tools compared to
net-tools, no?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-03 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-02  4:43 [PATCH] distro: Add util-linux Nikita Karetnikov
2012-12-02 22:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-03 23:54   ` Nikita Karetnikov
2012-12-04 16:48     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-12-03 15:14 ` Simon Josefsson
2012-12-03 15:27   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2012-12-03 17:29     ` Simon Josefsson
2012-12-03 18:12       ` Nikita Karetnikov
2012-12-03 20:37       ` Ludovic Courtès

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