Heads up: cracklib license changed

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 13:56:40 UTC 2008


Hi Nalin,

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:00 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> Heads up: the cracklib license has changed from "Artistic" to "GPLv2" in
> the version which is building now.
> 
> The consumers I found using repoquery (netatalk, pam, revelation) should
> all be fine with that, but I'm sending this anyway just in case.

the original author of the code only talks about GPL with no specific
version in
http://cracklib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cracklib/trunk/cracklib/README-LICENSE?revision=97&view=markup -- can you ask if they could make that GPLv2+ -- if not, I'd have to "downgrade" system-config-users from GPLv2+ to GPLv2 (or stop using cracklib).

Nils
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