On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:40:10 +0100, Romain Raboin wrote:

> > Hello,
> > I'm writing to you because you wrote the module in subject. Trying to
> > include the patch for this module into the Debian package for john, I
> > encountered some issues:
> >  1) no copyright years are given.
> >    Since a patch cannot convey timestamps information, I cannot infer those
> >    from anywhere. Please provide one or more years, or a range;
> 
> I wrote this patch during july / august 2008

Thanks for the information.

> >  2) no licensing statement is made.
> >    Please choose a DFSG-free license to ease inclusion into Debian. Also,
> > you might want to ask for inclusion upstream, and that has additional
> >    requirements:
> >        
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-john-devel/2009-January/000232.html
> >    Also Public Domain is fine, but please clearly state it.
> 
> All my work about password cracking was released under GPL license.

Is "GPLv2 or later" ok to you? (that's to ensure inclusion in upstream code)

Thank you for your prompt reply.

Kindly,
David

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