Re: Bug#791919: RFP: USBGuard -- protect your computer against rogue USB devices
What is the legal problem here? I think the default license for the .spec file is MIT: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#License_of_Fedora_SPEC_Files None now I'm aware of that policy - I just hadn't found it before.
Re: Bug#791919: RFP: USBGuard -- protect your computer against rogue USB devices
Hello, On 05/22/2016 12:25 AM, Rebecca N. Palmer wrote: Control: merge -1 813809 I'd also like to see this (or an equivalent: I'm not aware of any, but haven't looked much) in Debian, and am willing to try packaging it, but am not sure whether it's a good idea for a non-DD, non-security-specialist to maintain a security tool. feel free to contact me if there are any issues with the upstream code w.r.t. packaging in Debian. I haven't packaged anything for Debian yet, so I won't be of much help in that area but I can try. It's in Fedora, with packaging [0] that looks fairly easy to translate to Debian (if that's legal - I don't know whether License: in a Fedora .spec means "including this packaging"); What is the legal problem here? I think the default license for the .spec file is MIT: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main?rd=Licensing#License_of_Fedora_SPEC_Files The upstream repository (which includes the .spec file too) is licensed under GPLv2+. That's probably an inconsistency that I should fix... Regards, -- Daniel Kopeček Software Engineer, Special Projects Red Hat, Inc.
Re: Bug#791919: RFP: USBGuard -- protect your computer against rogue USB devices
Control: merge -1 813809 I'd also like to see this (or an equivalent: I'm not aware of any, but haven't looked much) in Debian, and am willing to try packaging it, but am not sure whether it's a good idea for a non-DD, non-security-specialist to maintain a security tool. It's in Fedora, with packaging [0] that looks fairly easy to translate to Debian (if that's legal - I don't know whether License: in a Fedora .spec means "including this packaging"); Tails are considering it [1]. A previous attempt to build a .deb package hit the build error [2]. [0] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/usbguard/sources/spec [1] https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/9569 [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2015/09/msg00116.html