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Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: Add util-linux.
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:27:05 +0100
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To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
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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=E2=80=99.