Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 19:09:46 +0100 James Westby wrote: > On (19/07/06 01:26), Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:38:37 +0100 James Westby wrote: [...] > > What does the "Authors field below" say? > > Is there one? > > > > If there is, then you (we) have to check whether it defines a

Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-25 Thread James Westby
On (19/07/06 01:26), Francesco Poli wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:38:37 +0100 James Westby wrote: > What does the "Authors field below" say? > Is there one? > > If there is, then you (we) have to check whether it defines a licensing > scheme which is DFSG-free and compatible with the rest of the

Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:38:37 +0100 James Westby wrote: My analysis of The Metasploit Framework License v1.0 follows. Executive summary = This license is definitely non-DFSG-free and should be avoided. A work released under this license should not be distributed by Debian (not ev

Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-19 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:38:24 -0400 Joe Smith wrote: > > "Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> > >> And my favourite > >> > >> # Yo yo, this be da socketNinja. > >> # Alpha-2.0 release > >> # Distribute and get a visit from tireIronNinja > >> > >>

Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-18 Thread Joe Smith
"Francesco Poli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And my favourite # Yo yo, this be da socketNinja. # Alpha-2.0 release # Distribute and get a visit from tireIronNinja which I don't think is free. It lacks (at least) permission to modify and distributed modifie

Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-18 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:38:37 +0100 James Westby wrote: > > Hi, there is an open ITP on metasploit-framework (#323420), and the > owner Luciano asked me to contact this list about some of the license > issues involved with the package. Hi, this is indeed the right list to contact. > > At the mo

Re: License issues with metasploit-framework

2006-07-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* James Westby: > ;This file is part of the Metasploit Exploit Framework > ;and is subject to the same licenses and copyrights as > ;the rest of this package. This should be fine; a lot of Perl modules use similar language. > There is a zlib implementation with the follow