Debian Bug report logs - #719153
please consider implementing FIPS 181

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Package: pwgen; Maintainer for pwgen is Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>; Source for pwgen is src:pwgen (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Marc Haber <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 19:45:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version pwgen/2.06-1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>:
Bug#719153; Package pwgen. (Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:45:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Marc Haber <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>. (Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:45:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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From: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: please consider implementing FIPS 181
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2013 21:42:36 +0200
Package: pwgen
Version: 2.06-1+b2
Severity: normal

Hi,

I would like to have the package apg which I have been maintaining for
a long time pulled from Debian since it's dead upstream. apg is,
however, an implementation of NIST FIPS 181 which is a well-known
standard.

Would it be possible to have the NIST FIPS 181 implemented as an
option in pwgen?

Unfortunately, apg is 3 clause BSD while pwgen is GPL, so it is not
simply done by pulling in the relevant code from apg.

Greetings
Marc

Information forwarded to [email protected], Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>:
Bug#719153; Package pwgen. (Mon, 26 May 2014 17:33:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <[email protected]>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]>. (Mon, 26 May 2014 17:33:09 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <[email protected]>
To: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: please consider implementing FIPS 181
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 19:29:20 +0200
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On 08/08/13 21:42, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, apg is 3 clause BSD while pwgen is GPL, so it is not
> simply done by pulling in the relevant code from apg.
> 

Why not?

AFAIK BSD 3-clausule is compatible with GPL.

You can pull BSD 3-clausule code into a GPL project meanwhile you
respect the license and copyright notices of the files you are importing.


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Severity set to 'wishlist' from 'normal' Request was from Theodore Y. Ts'o <[email protected]> to [email protected]. (Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:09:21 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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