On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 08:07:29AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 10:00:36PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > I'd like to package wpoison[1] for Debian. > > > > 1. http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/ > > > > This is the license that comes with it, could you tell me if it's > > DFSG-compliant? I think so... > > why not avoid the licensing problem entirely and just clone it? > > i've seen half-a-dozen variants of the fakelist.pl/wpoison idea over the > years, and they all do basically the same thing: generate random strings > that look like email addresses. > > fakelist.pl has the nice idea of sleeping for a few seconds between each > address, slowing down harvester bots. it also comes with some neat > mod_rewrite sample rules for redirecting known harvester bots to > fakelist.pl > > unfortunately, it has no explicit license at all...not even a copyright > statement. the author appears to be Tony Awtrey <tony@awtrey.com> and > the home URL is http://www.awtrey.com/files/spamsucks/ > > > it's not rocket science. it's about half an hour's work. > > i'd write one for you myself, but it wouldn't be a "clean-room" > reimplentation as i've seen the source for both wpoison and fakelist.pl > (i use a modified version of fakelist on my own system). > > craig I, on the other hand, have never seen anything of either of these except this discussion. If someone is willing to provide me with a clear description of the desired use environment and result, I'm willing to put in half an hour (or even a couple of hours, for that matter) of work, and provide a workalike under, oh... let's say the Clarified Artistic license, since that's what I usually use. Unless someone has a convincing reason to go with some other DFSG-free license; I'm not particularly attached. Granted, it also seems like re-inventing the wheel, but if nobody can find a DFSG-free version of what this appears to be aiming to accomplish, I'm fine with blowing a few hours to give us one, since folks clearly want such. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com lucifer@lightbearer.com http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
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