KRB5 implementation for JtR, free license

[David Paleino]

Hello,
I'm writing to you because I was adding the KRB5 implementation patch to JtR,
and you're listed as the author in src/KRB5_fmt.c (the copyright holder is not
a "human", but I believe you could have contacts there).
However, to be able to include the patch in Debian, we need a free license.
Currently, you're not granting any right:

/*
 * KRB5_fmt.c
 *
 *  Kerberos 5 module for John the Ripper by Solar Designer, based on the
 *  KRB4 module by Dug Song.
 *
 * Author: Nasko Oskov <nasko at netsekure.org>
 *
 * Licensing:
 *
 *  The module contains code derived or copied from the Heimdal project.
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 1997-2000 Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan
 *  (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden).
 *  All rights reserved.
 *
 *  Which is distribution of Kerberos based on M.I.T. implementation.
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 1990 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 *
 */

If you wish the patch to be added to the official Debian package, please
consider licensing the code under a DFSG-free license, such as GPL, BSD or
MIT/X11 (there are many others, though).

As far as I can see from http://www.h5l.org/ , the latest Heimdal releases are
released under BSD-3. Another option would then be rewriting the "plugin"
basing from a BSD-3-licensed version of Heimdal.

Kindly,
David Paleino

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