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CrackLib was originally licensed with a variant of the Artistic license. In the
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interests of wider acceptance and more modern licensing, it was switched with
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the original author's blessing to GPL v2.
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This approval was carried out in email discussions in 2005, and has been reconfirmed
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as of 2007-10-01 with the following email from Alec Muffett.
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From alecm@crypticide.com Mon Oct 1 12:26:03 2007
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From: Alec Muffett <alecm@crypticide.com>
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Subject: Re: cracklib license
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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 17:59:46 +0100
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To: Nathan Neulinger <nneul@neulinger.org>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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> From: Neulinger, Nathan <nneul@umr.edu>
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> Date: Sep 27, 2007 2:58 PM
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> Subject: RE: cracklib license
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> To: alecm@crypto.dircon.co.uk
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> Any chance you could write me a self-contained email stating clearly
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> that the license is being changed to GPL, so I could include that
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> in the repository and clean up the repository/tarballs? I have all the
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> original discussion, but something succinct and self contained
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The license for my code in the Cracklib distribution is henceforth GPL.
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