sharutils license correction

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Thu May 30 23:24:20 UTC 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 06:39:56PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 May 2013, Petr Pisar wrote:
>> >I've corrected license declaration at sharutils package:
>>
>> Why do we even bother shipping an old obsoleted [.....]
>
> ... and I thought you were talking about sharutils :-)
>
> Should we really distribute shar/unshar?  It's been known at least
> 20 years that these programs are horribly unsafe.
>
> (Note that 'sharutils' also contains uuencode/uudecode which are
> rather more useful).
>
> Rich.

uuencode is... an old and reliable friend. I'd like to keep it around.


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