Comment 105 for bug 102212

Hi Daniel,

On Nov 25, 2007 11:04 PM, Daniel Holbach <email address hidden> wrote:
> Nobody followed up on the lintian/linda errors on:
> http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?package=metasploit

I submitted patches to H.D. Moore and the Metasploit team to fix many
of the errors. However, they decided that they were too busy to
modify metasploit for inclusion in Debian/Ubuntu. The Metasploit
license non-standard and does not allow modification of the source by
anyone other than the msf developers, but does allow redistribution in
an unaltered form. With this in mind, H.D. said they would sort it
out when they draw up a new license for a future release of msf,
possibly version 4.0. As it stands now, we are tied by that license
and cannot proceed. H.D. Moore did integrate some of my patches, but
not all of them that were required to fix this package for inclusion
in Ubuntu :-(
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Kristian Erik Hermansen