Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it> writes: > On Jul 08, Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote: > >> I don't know the history of inetutils' fork of (g)whois, is there any >> hope in getting these code-bases merged now? Maybe enough water has >> passed under the bridges... > I see no reasons at this point to tie whois to inetnutils development, > since inetutils clearly has failed to become widely adopted, but feel > free to import it again if you want.
I'm not sure it is a good idea to do that, do you track copyrightable contributions in any way? Is there any functionality in InetUtils whois that isn't in your version? That is, something added to our fork that didn't go into your version? It is hard to tell from commit history... The situation here is quite unsatisfying and frustrating, but I'm not sure what can be done to improve it. It is similar to our fork of all ancient BSD tools: they are still maintained in FreeBSD/NetBSD/etc but the code have diverged and today there is plenty of features in our tools that doesn't exist in the other versions. /Simon
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