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1. Jookia (jookia@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2016 21:11:46 UTC Jookia

   • Jookia
   It took weeks to send a CLA just to get patches in to Wget (which is leaving GNU in its next release)
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 02:44:35 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia WGet is leaving GNU? Why?
   • Björn Schießle (bes@io.schiessle.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 06:26:46 UTC Björn Schießle

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @jookia @clacke as far as I know GNU doesn't require a CLA for all GNU Projects. Therefore I wonder why they doesn't simply drop the CLA without leaving GNU?
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 07:15:34 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia I have looked around and haven't seen a single indication, not even a rumor, of wget leaving GNU, apart from your statement. Source?
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 07:16:45 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Björn Schießle
     @bes @jookia Good point.
   • Jookia (jookia@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 09:42:46 UTC Jookia

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2/wiki/GNU-vs.-non-GNU
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   • Jookia (jookia@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 09:44:26 UTC Jookia

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2016-05/msg00076.html
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 11:39:55 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @jookia Sounds to me that would kill the project. No GNU, new codebase ... I'd just use curl, wget2 sounds redundant.
   • Jookia (jookia@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2016 14:13:18 UTC Jookia

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke If we need projects to be GNU to succeed, then we're in big trouble
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jul-2016 05:24:43 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia Not in general, but that's basically what #wget has going for it. 1) It's #GNU, so it's the go-to tool for several distributions.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jul-2016 05:25:45 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia 2) It's already used in several places, so people hang onto it for legacy reasons, backward compatibility. Some prefer its defaults.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jul-2016 05:26:26 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia 3) It's copyleft, but reading between the lines, it sounds like the maintainer is considering changing that as well, at some point.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jul-2016 05:33:01 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia #wget2 might have some killer feature that would attract people to it, but I'm not seeing it in that mailing list message.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jul-2016 05:33:53 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     @jookia All I can think of when I read "It is a complete rewrite" is http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html .