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Add LICENSE file

Open fabaff opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

fabaff avatar Mar 19 '20 10:03 fabaff

Could you merge this please? Then I'm able to ship the license as part of the Fedora RPM package. Thanks.

fabaff avatar Sep 17 '20 23:09 fabaff

@skelsec, could you please merge this is?

fabaff avatar Mar 18 '21 07:03 fabaff

@fabaff I definitely can't merge this. Reason: I have no idea what the correct license for this code is, but it's definitely not MIT as it contains code from Impacket

skelsec avatar Mar 27 '21 13:03 skelsec

The setup.py file says MIT. impacket is licensed under ASL and ASL is a permissive license. As far as I know, can modified or derived code be under a different license. Unmodified code needs to stay under ASL.

fabaff avatar Mar 27 '21 19:03 fabaff

The setup.py is incorrect in that case. (probably a leftover from copypaste, sorry. I'll fix it in the next update)
As for the MIT license part: I don't think that it will cut it in this case because I haven't seen any articles stating that's it's okay to "downgrade" the license. The only option I see is either an apache license or "updating" it to GPLv3 / LGPL. But again, I'm not a lawyer and absolutely not versed in the licensing topic. I have asked around already abt this but all I'm getting is contradicting info :/

skelsec avatar Mar 27 '21 22:03 skelsec

no license = COPYRIGHTED, so in theory other project don't have the right to ship it, and linux distro don't have the rights to embed it, so please choose an OSI license for all your projects

noraj avatar Sep 10 '22 23:09 noraj