Re: KRB5 implementation for JtR, free license
Hello, thanks for your quick reply. On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:54:52 -0500, Nasko Oskov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:58:01PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > If you wish the patch to be added to the official Debian package, please > > consider licensing the code under a DFSG-free license, such as GPL, BSD or > > MIT/X11 (there are many others, though). > > > > As far as I can see from http://www.h5l.org/ , the latest Heimdal releases > > are released under BSD-3. Another option would then be rewriting the > > "plugin" basing from a BSD-3-licensed version of Heimdal. > > I would not mind the patch being added to Debian. Feel free to modify > the header to indicate that I'm licensing the code under the BSD > license. > Let me know if you have other questions or anything is required of me. The original author stated that BSD-3 is not acceptable for inclusion into upstream code. Do you wish to license it under BSD-2? For more information: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-john-devel/2009-January/000232.html By the way, it seems like you're not the copyright holder for KRB5_fmt.c, that's what I meant with: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:58:01PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > [..] you're listed as the author in src/KRB5_fmt.c (the copyright holder is > not a "human", but I believe you could have contacts there). Not being the copyright holder, you cannot really exercise any right on the code: * Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan * (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden). * All rights reserved. Do you work there? Any chance I can get an official mail from there? I suppose those copyright lines come from older Heimdal sources, that's why I suggested rewriting the module using newer BSD-3-licensed sources. Again, thank you for your promptness, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Pkg-john-devel mailing list Pkg-john-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-john-devel
Re: KRB5 implementation for JtR, free license
On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:58:01 +0100, David Paleino wrote: > Hello, [..] Also, please keep the list CCed, so that we have a public record of anything. Thank you, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Pkg-john-devel mailing list Pkg-john-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-john-devel
KRB5 implementation for JtR, free license
Hello, I'm writing to you because I was adding the KRB5 implementation patch to JtR, and you're listed as the author in src/KRB5_fmt.c (the copyright holder is not a "human", but I believe you could have contacts there). However, to be able to include the patch in Debian, we need a free license. Currently, you're not granting any right: /* * KRB5_fmt.c * * Kerberos 5 module for John the Ripper by Solar Designer, based on the * KRB4 module by Dug Song. * * Author: Nasko Oskov * * Licensing: * * The module contains code derived or copied from the Heimdal project. * * Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan * (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden). * All rights reserved. * * Which is distribution of Kerberos based on M.I.T. implementation. * * Copyright (C) 1990 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology * */ If you wish the patch to be added to the official Debian package, please consider licensing the code under a DFSG-free license, such as GPL, BSD or MIT/X11 (there are many others, though). As far as I can see from http://www.h5l.org/ , the latest Heimdal releases are released under BSD-3. Another option would then be rewriting the "plugin" basing from a BSD-3-licensed version of Heimdal. Kindly, David Paleino -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 | http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Pkg-john-devel mailing list Pkg-john-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-john-devel
