On 02/08/2011 12:40 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > The comment strikes me as a GPL incompatibility. (License is GPLv2+) > > Should anything be done about this ? > > (The obfuscated code seems to check a date, and print a message asking you > to send birthday wishes to the author. Cute, but annoying to come across such > things when auditting for security issues). Just to follow up on this issue: A) Yes, the comment is a GPL incompatibility, and it makes the whole licensing of ettercap non-free. B) I emailed the authors of ettercap and they quickly responded, giving Fedora written permission to remove the comment. C) I've committed a copy of their email, and a patch to remove the comment from ettercap to Fedora GIT, and rebuilt the package in rawhide. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
