Nikto license on data files

2008-04-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
Hi! Nikto is a security web scanner licensed under GPLv2 only. It was orphaned some time ago and I am packaging the new upstream version. http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nikto.html While nikto.pl (the executable) is licensed under GPLv2, the data files that are used have a pretty

Re: Applying the terms of GPL to your program

2008-04-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat Apr 05 10:00, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: On 08/04/04 21:21 +0100, Matthew Johnson said ... On Sat Apr 05 00:06, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: So if I am packaging a piece of software for Debian and the software is licensed under the GPL, is the above valid (and more

Re: Applying the terms of GPL to your program

2008-04-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 10:40:07 +0100 Matthew Johnson wrote: On Sat Apr 05 10:00, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: [...] Yes, including /usr/share/common-licenses in the 'license blurb' text itself is valid? This is what I meant. As long as the text in debian/rules unambiguously declares the

Re: IETF changing their IPR policy, not DFSG compliant

2008-04-05 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:16:33 +0100 Simon Josefsson wrote: All, The IETF is about to change their IPR policy and turn it into a two-step process where contributors assign rights to the IETF Trust which then grant rights to others. The relevant documents are:

Re: Nikto license on data files

2008-04-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du samedi 05 avril 2008, vers 13:00, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait: First try to get the data licence fixed upstream. I have sent him a mail about this matter. If that doesn't work, either put it in non-free or strip the non-free data and put

Re: Nikto license on data files

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Another question: nikto has been removed but is still present in stable. It contains the same non-free data. Since the package has been orphaned, who should I contact about this? ftp-master? I'd say nikto is

Re: Nikto license on data files

2008-04-05 Thread Joe Smith
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. Another question: nikto has been removed but is still present in stable. It contains the same non-free data. Since the package has been