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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of rvscan
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loic |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of rvscan |
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Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:44:36 +0200 |
Welcome to Savannah.
The rvscan-v4.tgz does not contain copyright notice and therefore
is not Free Software. Besides it contains a binary program and there is
no way to find the matching source code. You should fix those two problems
before uploading it on Savannah.
Thanks,
address@hidden writes:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Ben Crackel <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: rvscan
> System name: rvscan
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
>
> Rvscan, a UNIX remote vulnerability scanner aimed at improving remote
> security and encouraging regular package upgrades. Written solely in SH and
> PERL with minor help from a few included c packages, rvscan is not yet the
> most memory efficient package, although it should soon be entirely rewritten
> in C. The current release is at http://og.overflow.org/code/rvscan-v4.tgz,
> although a new version (hopefully under GNU) should be ready for
> distribution within a month. Once the entire package is in C, I plan to
> release updates biweekly containing new vulnerabilities.
>
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