Heads up: cracklib license changed

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 16:06:12 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:59 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:40 +0100
> Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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).
> 
> 
> If there is no version listed, it's GPL+

"GPL" is what the original author told upstream (cracklib.sf.net),
upstream mention "GPLv2".

Nils
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