Re: [mod-security-users] ModSecurity 2.5.5 Debian packages

[Alberto G. I. <ag...@in...>]

Hi Christian,

The issue has been disscussed in this list for long, search the archive
a bit and you'll find it. You can also take a look at:
http://www.thinkingstone.com/about/legal/licensing-clarifications.html
and
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

Regards,

Alberto

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:54:49AM +0200, chr...@po... wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Thanks for your quick response, Alberto. I have heard this mentioned before.
> Can you elaborate a bit? I am sure other users are interested too.
> I mean ModSecurity is GPL, so what is the matter, exactly. And if there is
> a problem, why is not it in the non-free section?
> My license knowhow is rather limited and I am a bit out of touch with 
> debian, but this issue interests me.
> 
> regs,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: mod...@li... [mailto:mod...@li...] Im Auftrag von Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2008 11:18
> An: mod...@li...
> Betreff: Re: [mod-security-users] ModSecurity 2.5.5 Debian packages
> 
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> There a licensing issues that make ModSecurity non-distributable in Debian. Those may disappear in the near future, but until that happens ModSecurity won't be distributed by Debian.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alberto
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:37:23AM +0200, chr...@po... wrote:
> > Hey Alberto,
> > 
> > Are there plans to get ModSecurity into Debian (/Ubuntu) for say Lenny?
> > I believe adoption of ModS and optionally the CoreRules by the major 
> > distributions could boost the user base.
> > 
> > Regs,
> > 
> > Christian
> > 
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: mod...@li... 
> > [mailto:mod...@li...] Im Auftrag 
> > von Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Juni 2008 19:20
> > An: Mod Security; Mod Packagers
> > Betreff: [mod-security-users] ModSecurity 2.5.5 Debian packages
> > 
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Packages for ModSecurity 2.5.5 are now available at my repository (i386 and amd64 for the moment).
> > 
> > Packages for sid/lenny can be obtained adding the following line to 
> > your
> > sources.list:
> > deb http://etc.inittab.org/~agi/debian/libapache-mod-security2/2.5.x 
> > ./
> > 
> > For Etch (stable) use this line in your sources.list:
> > deb 
> > http://etc.inittab.org/~agi/debian/libapache-mod-security2/2.5.x/etch 
> > ./
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Alberto
> > 
> 

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