[Fedora-legal-list] FYI - chntpw package

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:11:41AM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Well, I've applied Debian's patch now anyway ...
> 
> So if the legal winds should shift, you'll be covered. :)
> 
> Just out of curiousity, do you know if anyone asked chntpw upstream if
> they'd add a OpenSSL exception to the license?  I know GnuPG (at least
> the 1.4 branch) did so a while back.

I'm wholly confused by what the licensing problem is, but according to
the original bugzilla report Debian have asked one of the upstreams
(chntpw or openssl?) for an exception and it has been turned down:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504595

I sent a bunch of patches to upstream chntpw yesterday[1], which is
what prompted this whole affair (I also sent the patches to the Debian
maintainer who promptly filed the above bug).  I've not heard anything
back at the moment about those patches.

It's reported that upstream chntpw may be dead.  Unfortunate as it's
the only game in town if you want to decode Windows registry files
using free software ...

Rich.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504580

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