[bug-inetutils] Re: Non-FSF copyrighted files.

[Simon Josefsson]

"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <address@hidden> writes:

> Taking a step back from this entire issue, a question pops up in my
> mind. Why do we have these files at all? Is not Inetutils supposed to
> be GNU's own set of Internet tools? If yes, then why have the
> copyrights not been assigned to the FSF? Can we not re-write these
> files from scratch?

I had the same thoughts, but I don't know the background of that code
in GNU InetUtils.

Looking at the code quality, it would be a very good thing to rewrite
the code.  I'm rather worried that telnetd is vulnerable to several
recent security problems, that have been fixed in other telnetd's
which were based on the same historic code.

/Simon