Comment 35 for bug 102212

On 8/14/07, Justin M. Wray <email address hidden> wrote:
> I too have a packaged version, from the unmodified metasploit release,
> it is more then possible to build the deb with the SVN, as SVN is used
> to update the exploits, and other framework modules. May not be the
> ideal build, but can work.

Someone has claimed that leaving .svn around is against debian policy,
which would be understandable...

> Either way, if you want to modify the "original package" we can simply
> write a patch, and place it in the debian/ directory. But again,
> doesn't seem modifications are necessary, everything builds fine. And
> that is when we start to interfere with the license.

Yes, the problem is modification and distribution...

> The real issue here isn't the "ease" of packaging metasploit, but the
> license itself.

Yup :-) msf2 is GPL, but not msf3...

> So do we have the license issue resolved? In what other ways can I
> assist? Alessandro Tanasi we should trade .changes to see where we can
> improve the package, before upload to REVU.

hdm is busy at the moment, so we will hear from the msf devs when they
get some free time. msf3 won't make it into Gutsy anyways, right?
Unless there is some way we can get it into gutsy there is no reason
to rush. If you know a cut off date for gutsy, let me know, but I
thought the cutoff for universe/multiverse was when they did the pull
from debian unstable, which is relatively early in the cycle...

> I am really looking forward to getting metasploit in the Ubuntu
> repositories.

Me too :-)
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Kristian Erik Hermansen