-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 11:22:57PM -0500, Mike wrote: > Federico Grau wrote: > > Whats the debian perspective on tripwire... > > > > I see there is a non-free package "tripwire 1.2-16.1", however the > > tripwire.org FAQ ( http://www.tripwire.org/qanda/faq.php quetion 16) says > > that > > the linux version of tripwire is released under the gpl (can they release > > under the gpl and restrict that license to linux?!). > > > > Is debian planning on using this and including it in the distro? > > It's in woody. > <snip> > Note that the package is in the non-free section.
No, this is the wrong version. Here's the history if tripwire. Originally it was developed at CMU (?) and released under a semi-free license. This is the version that appears in woody, and it's *ancient*. It was released in late '92. Then the tripwire authors formed a company released a closed-source version. This is the only version that's been updated over the years, and is an entirely different product than the original tripwire. Recently, tripwire 2.3, the closed-sourced version, was re-released under the GPL. There is no reason that this shouldn't be packaged for Debian. I have contacted the maintainer of the currently included tripwire version to ask if they plan on packaging the new version, but haven't received a response. I'm not sure what their status is, as they didn't respond to a bug report I submitted a while back either. If they don't respond, then I will package tripwire 2.3 myself. I've been using it on Debian (potato and woody) in recent weeks and have a solid idea on what it would take to package it. noah - -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6GUo8YrVLjBFATsMRAiAPAJsEsmu9LSLkPwxOjC46h/l18TjQawCfYjAA 2IDPMeRADYGE+8yn4HQ7bUE= =oWqF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
