Bug#122929: wpoison
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 02:55:26PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> I saw an RFP for wpoison from you from some time ago, and I took a quick
> look at the program. It looks like a good idea, but the I am unsure
> about the license. On the wpoison site, one page says "must include a
> hyperlink" and another says "I ask that you include a hyperlink" - not
> very consistent.
>
> I am writing to you because I am a New Maintainer (TM :^) ), and would
> like to package this, if it is indeed Free. I was wondering if you had
> been in contact with the author about this, or if you were still
> planning on doing anything with it. Sorry if this has already been
> beaten to death - I took a quick look through -legal and didn't see
> anything about it.
Hi Stephen,
There are a LOT of problems packaging wpoison, including dead upstream
and improper license (according to debian-legal it can't go into non-free
even) I tried to contact upstream to change his license but he stopped
responding after some mails.
See the RFP log to know exactly what happened:
http://bugs.debian.org/122929
I don't want to look at wpoison at all now. On your hand, if you want to
package an anti-spam CGI like that, I suggest you to look at a GPLed tool
referenced in the RFP:
author: Matthew Astley <matthew@fruitcake.demon.co.uk>
announced: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2002/debian-wnpp-200207/msg00291.html
homepage: http://www.t8o.org/
test it: http://www.t8o.org/tramspap/
I don't know more about it.
have luck,
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992
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