I just had a look into http://www.tazenda.demon.co.uk/phil/net-tools/ and they are GNU version 2 licensed.
You mean "GNU General Public License version 2", and what the license is, is irrelevant to the discussion. > Debian GNU/Hurd uses net-tools I belive, but this conflicts with > inetutils. Maybe a solution would be to move hostname into > inetutils, where it really belongs. What do you think? I'll > happily do the move. My Gentoo box uses hostname/ifconfig from net-tools. What do you meant "conflicts? That you cannot install both packages because both provide the same tools (if not all, then some of the tools). I don't understand why should hostname move into inetutils. Because it is a "internet" tool. I don't know much about Hurd, but couldnt Hurd use hostaname from net-tools too? Yes, but then you can't use inetutils. I thought we just don't want to build coreutils's hostname on boxes where /usr/bin/hostname exists already or when the version from net-tools is know to perform better. Recall that coreutils doesn't only run on GNU-variants, it runs on a wide selection of operating systems. It would be quite possible that these systems would end up not having hostname. And net-tools (from the little I know about it) only supports GNU-variant systems like GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd. It seems that the maintainer of net-tools is a GNU hacker, maybe it would be possible to merge net-tools with inetutils.... Personally, if configure in coreutils would include a code to disable hostname based on certain criteria, I would be happy with that too. That is ugly, and it is impossible to figure out what this criteria is. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
