cracklib2 not free - the licence is “freely plagiarised from the ‘Artistic Licence’”

Filed in: Bugs.00109 · Modified on : Tue, 08 Dec 09

Summary
cracklib2 not free - the licence is “freely plagiarised from the ‘Artistic Licence’”
Type
Bug
Category
Other
Raised by
TWK
Date opened
2007–08–15
Description
cracklib2 library is suspected not be free. Its licence is “”freely plagiarised from the ‘Artistic Licence’”, and the latter _is not_ a free software licence according to FSF. Here’s the statement:
We cannot say that this is a free software license because it is too vague; some passages are too clever for their own good, and their meaning is not clear. We urge you to avoid using it, except as part of the disjunctive license of Perl.
Status
Duplicate
Importance
3
Target Release
deltad
Resolution
Dupe of 00099
Date closed
2007–08–28
Comments
Recognized for deltah and fixed in revision 251. See also its entry on the Libre Planet software blacklist.

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