Spec URL: http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/cryptcat.spec SRPM URL: http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/cryptcat-1.2.1-1.fc10.src.rpm Description: TCP/IP swiss army knife extended with twofish encryption Cryptcat is a simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol while encrypting the data being transmitted. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
Wow. Okay, a few things: * The current nc in Fedora is nc-1.84-21 * The nc code in this is 1.10. It is ancient. I would strongly recommend that you try to get this extension supported in the netcat upstream, otherwise, you will constantly be playing a catchup game with keeping this code working against the latest netcat code. * Netcat is licensed under the GPL, all versions (GPL+) * farm9crypt.cpp has no licensing information * twofish2.cc is under the "Cryptix General License", which is BSD, even though the license text is not present in this package (which should be fixed). In order to have this live in Fedora, you need to update the netcat code to the current revision, have upstream clarify the licensing on farm9crypt*, and include a copy of the Cryptix General License (just to be sure it is in fact, BSD). Blocking FE-Legal.
(In reply to comment #1) > Wow. Okay, a few things: > > * The current nc in Fedora is nc-1.84-21 > * The nc code in this is 1.10. It is ancient. I would strongly recommend that > you try to get this extension supported in the netcat upstream, ok, will try this. > otherwise, you > will constantly be playing a catchup game with keeping this code working > against the latest netcat code. > > * Netcat is licensed under the GPL, all versions (GPL+) > * farm9crypt.cpp has no licensing information > * twofish2.cc is under the "Cryptix General License", which is BSD, even though > the license text is not present in this package (which should be fixed). > > In order to have this live in Fedora, you need to update the netcat code to the > current revision, have upstream clarify the licensing on farm9crypt*, and > include a copy of the Cryptix General License (just to be sure it is in fact, > BSD). I've already sent an email to upstream asking for license clarification. And Sure, will include the Cryptix General License copy. (FWIW, I've read and compared both Cryptix General License and BSD two clause license, it looks the same) > > Blocking FE-Legal. Thanks for the comments Tom.
please remove NotReady from the Whiteboard once this review requests needs attention by a reviewer.
Is anything happening here? It's been blocked on legal issues for nearly half a year now and unless something happens soon it's probably time to close this out.
Hi Jason, I haven't received any response from upstream, despite sending a couple of mails on license clarification. This request can be closed for now, I guess.
Sure, I'll close it out for you.