Re: [Cracklib-devel] cracklib license

[Mike F. <va...@ge...>]

On Monday 01 October 2007, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> I understand that, and you're welcome to bring it up with Alec directly
> and see if he wants to relicense his code as LGPL... but at this point,
> it was enough to just get it consistent and documented as to what it was
> released under. This wasn't actually a license change, just a
> clarification of the licensing that was already in place.

the original license (before moving to sourceforge -- aka, 2.7) was not=20
GPL-2 ... it was a modified artistic license ... i didnt notice the license=
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change until it was mentioned in the latest notes.

unlike the old license, GPL-2 prevents people from using cracklib unless th=
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applications are also GPL-2 which imo is just wrong.  it isnt the place of =
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library to dictact to application writes what license they should be using.=
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thus LGPL-2.1 enters to fill this void.
=2Dmike