Jeff D wrote:
OK. It's as I thought. It's a problem with the licensing. But, why can't it be moved to non-free rather than just being dropped altogether? All kinds of proprietary software is in non-free, and the Apache license is at least open even though it's not the GPL. I mean, I can "contaminate" the kernel right from the Debian repositories, so why am I not able to at least install open source software from there? I don't understand this at all.Freddy Freeloader wrote:Schiz0 wrote:On Feb 13, 2008 2:13 PM, Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:Hi All, Can anyone tell me why the modsecurity2_module is not in the Debian repositories? I understand that parts of it might not be GPL'ed, but why can't it be carried in the non-free repositories if that's the problem? Debian carries things such as fully proprietary drivers in non-free, so why the problem with modsecurity? IMHO this is a very useful package.If you're using etch, you can put this line in your /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://etc.inittab.org/~agi/debian/libapache-mod-security2/ etch/It actually has a link to that site on the official mod_security website.Thanks. I was unaware of that link. I will make use of it. Do you know why modsecurity isn't hosted directly?here's a bug report on it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352344