From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: 31307@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum
Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 22:33:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eohrgeu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wowrj9kq.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:38:13 -0700")
Hello Chris,
Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
> Should we refrain from adding this package simply because the author is
> not maintaining it any more? I'm inclined to say "no", but one also has
> to consider whether it is a a good idea to encourage people to use an
> unmaintained tool for protecting their privacy/anonymity. I'm not sure.
It’s risky, indeed. As time passes it’s likely to have more and more
known-but-unfixed security issues, which isn’t great. Leo, thoughts on
this situation?
> In addition, I notice that the license is GPL 2, but it seems the author
> did not specify whether "any later version" can be used. Therefore, I
> have listed this as gpl2, instead of gpl2+.
Note that unless authors explicitly removed the “or any later version”
phrase from license headers in source files, we write ‘gpl2+’;
specifically, Section 9 of GPLv2 reads:
If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you
may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-05 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-28 21:38 [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum Chris Marusich
2018-04-28 22:11 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-04-29 3:09 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-29 8:18 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-02 6:00 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-02 6:12 ` Nils Gillmann
2018-05-05 20:33 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-05-05 21:37 ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-06 19:26 ` Leo Famulari
2018-05-06 19:44 ` Leo Famulari
2018-06-15 7:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-07-05 8:29 ` Chris Marusich
2018-06-16 13:42 ` Nils Gillmann
2021-09-13 2:26 ` Sarah Morgensen
2021-11-08 1:34 ` [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
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