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Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:35:44 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: cracking RADIUS shared secrets with john the ripper

Hi Didier,

I am sorry for the delay on this.

On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 07:48:02PM +0100, Didier Arenzana wrote:
> I had not think of the problem that could this change raise. I intend
> to change the license in this way, removing reference to binary
> builds, since it does not really male sense for a utility perl script
> :
> 
> "Redistribution and use in source form, with or without modification,
> are permitted,
>   as long as the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
>   duplicated in all such forms"
> 
> Would this be ok ?

No, this is worse than what you wrote originally.  Besides requiring
attribution, now you also disallow binary builds, including of derived
versions (which might be in a language other than Perl).  Now this is
definitely incompatible e.g. with GNU GPL.

Alexander

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