Bug#764357: non-free file in package

Hello, I have published a new version of ssdeep, version 2.12, which has a different implementation of edit distance. This version is explicitly licensed under the General Public License. http://ssdeep.sf.net/ thanks, -- Jesse Kornblum resea...@jessekornblum.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#764357: non-free file in package

I can't directly contribute to ssdeep because I saw the non-free source code of edit_dist.c. So I decided to tweet this problem. After I tweeted this problem on Twitter (in Japanese), @kikairoya (who has not seen the source code of ssdeep and/or trn) wrote a program to compute ssdeep version of L

Bug#764357: non-free file in package

Hi, How about editdist.c in py-editdist (edit distance imlementation for Python but the core is implemented in C) as a replacement of non-free edit_dist.c? It looks this file (and py-editdist) is licensed under the ISC License (which is free) and looks okay. One thing to note is, it uses older

Bug#764357: non-free file in package

Hello, I am the developer of ssdeep. I have been notified of the license issue in ssdeep and removed the offending files from the download site while we get this issue resolved. Do you have any leads on a GPL-compatible implementation of this code? thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-b

Bug#764357: non-free file in package

Package: ssdeep Severity: serious User: alteh...@debian.org Usertags: ftp X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org thanks Dear Maintainer, according to the file header, the file edit_dist.c is copied from trn3.6. Due to restrictions in the license, trn3.6 is in non-free. So please replace