On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:55:26PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello Robert, > > I saw an RFP for wpoison from you from some time ago, and I took a quick > look at the program. It looks like a good idea, but the I am unsure > about the license. On the wpoison site, one page says "must include a > hyperlink" and another says "I ask that you include a hyperlink" - not > very consistent. > > I am writing to you because I am a New Maintainer (TM :^) ), and would > like to package this, if it is indeed Free. I was wondering if you had > been in contact with the author about this, or if you were still > planning on doing anything with it. Sorry if this has already been > beaten to death - I took a quick look through -legal and didn't see > anything about it.
Hi Stephen, There are a LOT of problems packaging wpoison, including dead upstream and improper license (according to debian-legal it can't go into non-free even) I tried to contact upstream to change his license but he stopped responding after some mails. See the RFP log to know exactly what happened: http://bugs.debian.org/122929 I don't want to look at wpoison at all now. On your hand, if you want to package an anti-spam CGI like that, I suggest you to look at a GPLed tool referenced in the RFP: author: Matthew Astley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> announced: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2002/debian-wnpp-200207/msg00291.html homepage: http://www.t8o.org/ test it: http://www.t8o.org/tramspap/ I don't know more about it. have luck, -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
