On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 03:43:27AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 07:20:23AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > GNU inetutils is a FSF implementation, ours is the original BSD. > > > > The FSF is re-implementing long existing code so that they can GPL it. > > Uh, this is dead wrong, at least in the case of inetutils. The GNU inetutils > started out as a port of the BSD code to the GNU Hurd platform, and it was done > by Miles Bader. In a desire to do the right thing, the code was actually > modified to be portable across many systems. There are plans to do more with > the code (new features etc). > > Of course the package is GPL'ed (just like sysklogd is GPL'ed, although it > is forked from the BSD code), but that is not the motivation. Stop combatting hysteria with the facts. Don't you know that's not how this Project is supposed to work? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Please do not look directly into branden@debian.org | laser with remaining eye. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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