[Bug 516802] Review Request: cryptcat - Standard netcat enhanced with twofish encryption capabilities

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--- Comment #2 from kashyap chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com>  2009-08-11 14:52:44 EDT ---

(In reply to comment #1)
> Wow. Okay, a few things:
> 
> * The current nc in Fedora is nc-1.84-21
> * The nc code in this is 1.10. It is ancient. I would strongly recommend that
> you try to get this extension supported in the netcat upstream,

ok, will try this. 

> otherwise, you
> will constantly be playing a catchup game with keeping this code working
> against the latest netcat code.
> 
> * Netcat is licensed under the GPL, all versions (GPL+)
> * farm9crypt.cpp has no licensing information
> * twofish2.cc is under the "Cryptix General License", which is BSD, even though
> the license text is not present in this package (which should be fixed).
> 
> In order to have this live in Fedora, you need to update the netcat code to the
> current revision, have upstream clarify the licensing on farm9crypt*, and
> include a copy of the Cryptix General License (just to be sure it is in fact,
> BSD).

I've already sent an email to upstream asking for license clarification. 
And Sure, will include the Cryptix General License copy. (FWIW, I've read and
compared both Cryptix General License and BSD two clause license, it looks the
same)

> 
> Blocking FE-Legal.  

Thanks for the comments Tom.

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