Hello Joshua,
I really wanted to see cowpatty as part of the debian distribution, i'm working together with some people from Kali linux towards packaging their tools on debian (and thus let Kali sync the package from debian, making the package more stable and secure).
cowpatty is one of the packages i'm working on right now, but i have found problems which makes impossible to ship cowpatty on debian with openssl linked. You see, the GPL license is incompatible with openssl, more info here[0][1][2].
I'm asking you to consider adding the OpenSSL exemption on your license definition, as suggested on [2]:
```
* In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
* permission to link the code of portions of this program with the
* OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each
* individual source file, and distribute linked combinations
* including the two.
* You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects
* for all of the code used other than OpenSSL. If you modify
* file(s) with this exception, you may extend this exception to your
* version of the file(s), but you are not obligated to do so. If you
* do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your
* version. If you delete this exception statement from all source
* files in the program, then also delete it here.
```
This would allow us to package cowpatty for debian (and note that all derivatives would get the package too). If you're willing to, i suggest doing the changes and making a new release, that would make things easier for me, but just committing the changes is enough for me, i can package a specific git commit instead of a release on Debian.
PS.: It would be also possible to patch cowpatty to use another lib that is compatible with GPL, but the easiest and quickest way is to add the license exemption.
Thanks for your consideration, i opened a github issue on the cowpatty repository[3]
[0]
https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html[1]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/10/msg00113.html[2]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html[3]
https://github.com/joswr1ght/cowpatty/issues/1--
Samuel Henrique <samueloph>