Re: Can "rockyou" wordlist be packaged in Debian?
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- Subject: Re: Can "rockyou" wordlist be packaged in Debian?
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
- Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 23:09:35 +0200
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- In-reply-to: <CAKTje6G6ptThBPALNPpcM00PFTCUK27_qg+Dr=UajR4uY+=t9g@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Wise's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:39:55 +0800")
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* Paul Wise:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Eriberto Mota wrote:
>
>> Can rockyou be packaged in Debian, considering that Kali will put a
>> DFSG-compatible license for this wordlist?
>
> Kali certainly isn't the owner of the wordlist so they definitely
> can't put a license on it.
>
> OTOH, it probably is not copyrightable.
I'm not convinced it is a good idea for Debian to distribute results
of a data breach, even if copyright laws and data protection laws
permit this.
And a password database can be protected as a database in the EU.
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