| Summary: | app-forensics/volatility needs py3 port | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Michał Górny <mgorny> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 694800 | ||
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Description
Michał Górny
2020-05-07 13:36:27 UTC
I'm considering last riting this package. There is a rewrite of Volatility in python3 at https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3 but they switched the license from GPL-2+ to a custom non-free license. Discussion from Fedora: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/OHECHDPLDJ7LLFUZXQMBBAXEXYTQMXOR/ There is an open github issue about this, but no reaction so far from upstream: https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3/issues/208 Upstream declined a change to an OSI approed license.
> While Volatility 3 will continue to be released under a license that makes
> source code available, it is a limited license. We did not intend for this
> license to be approved by OSI or for the Linux distros. Our license is intended
> to help protect the people who sacrifice their time and resources actually
> contributing to the project and to expand the users freedoms to works derived
> from Volatility. If a Linux distro requires an OSI-approved license, we would
> not expect them to include our code. On a related note, memory analysis
> software is constantly changing with every operating system release and the
> versions found in the distributions are often out of date.
I therefore will not package future versions and propose to last-rite this package.
Well, no need to anymore ;-). commit 17ed872c6334185fdebf3d60b2aa219fc1fe7516 Author: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-07-04 04:22:37 +0200 Commit: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-07-04 04:24:06 +0200 */*: drop last-rited py2 packages Signed-off-by: Aaron Bauman <bman@gentoo.org> |