The Fedora chntpw package violates the GNU GPLv2. It links to OpenSSL, which has an incompatible license and upstream does not provide the standard OpenSSL exception for GPLed applications. The above violation means Fedora is no longer allowed to distribute chntpw and has to contact the upstream author to rectify the situation and receive permission to distribute chntpw again. Debian GNU/Linux provides a patch[1] to allow chntpw to link to libgcrypt instead, avoiding the GPL violation. Unfortunately upstream refuses to add an exception or include the patch, perhaps you can convince them to do so when you are obtaining permission to distribute chntpw again. 1. http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/series/view/chntpw/0.99.5-0+nmu1/01_port_to_gcrypt.patch
I don't have any relation with upstream on this package (in fact, I thought it was dead). But I will include Debian's libgcrypt patch when finals week is over for me (or if you're in the provenpackager group, feel free to add it yourself before then).
Paul is a Debian developer. I will take the Debian patch so we can use libgcrypt.
chntpw-0.99.6-5.fc10.2 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chntpw-0.99.6-5.fc10.2
chntpw-0.99.6-9.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/chntpw-0.99.6-9.fc11
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chntpw-0.99.6-5.fc10.2 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update chntpw'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-6165
chntpw-0.99.6-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update chntpw'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-6189
chntpw-0.99.6-9.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
chntpw-0.99.6-5.fc10.2 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.