[Gllug] Redhat / Debian / X reversion

[Paul Cupis]

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On Saturday 07 Jun 2003 16:44, James de Lurker 
<jtl2nospamMUNGIEjump at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:32:57 +0100  Pete Ryland wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 01:47:02PM +0100, James de Lurker wrote:
> >>On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:40:59 +0100 (BST) Chris Bell wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> >>Tripwire won't be a choice for Debian I presume - so what does the
> >> team recommend as a viable alternative here?
> >
> > IIRC, tripwire runs fine on debian (although I haven't used it for
> > some time).  Why would it not?
>
> Oh sorry - thoughts here were tied up with "form" rather than
> function. I don't doubt that Tripwire would live and work well in Deb
> - the "form" was a fear that the license conditions would not make it
> acceptable as a "standard" part of Debian.

Currently tripwire is in Debian's non-US section, and thus is a 
'standard' part of Debian. It is in non-US becuase it uses encyption 
algorithms which are patented in the US.

There is an open bug report [1] asking for it to be moved to non-free 
(making it not part of Debian).

Regards,

Paul Cupis
- -- 
paul at cupis.co.uk

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/153007

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