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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of vNET Project


From: Loic Dachary
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of vNET Project
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 18:45:35 +0200

        Hi,

        Could you please submit your project again with a temporary URL
to the current distribution ? We will help you make sure the licensing
information you're currently adding is correct.
        
        Cheers,

address@hidden writes:
 > A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
 > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
 > 
 > 
 > Thomas Sarlandie <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
 > License: gpl
 > Other License: 
 > Package: vNET Project
 > System name: vnet
 > This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
 > 
 > Description:
 > vNET stands for Visual Network Exploration Tool. It is a two part project 
 > which allows the user to view is network in 3 dimension.

 > 

 > The first part is called : \"probe\" and is a daemon launched on a UN*X box. 
 > We currently support FreeBSD and GNU/Linux. The probe\'s job is to handle 
 > requests from the client, and to do stuff like pingsweeping, tracerouting, 
 > portscanning, fingerprinting, etc. It must be run as root in order to do raw 
 > packet handling.

 > 

 > The second part is called : \"client\" and is a SDL/OpenGL program that 
 > connects to one or more probes and renders the network as seen by the probe. 
 > It currently runs on GNU/Linux (main developpment platform), Win32, and 
 > FreeBSD. The user can click on a network, a host, etc to see its properties 
 > or to ask the probe to get more information.

 > 

 > Communication between probe and client is currently done either in clear TCP 
 > or using openssl. 

 > 

 > We have been working on that project since the beginning of the year as a 
 > school-project. We have received authorization to distribute the project 
 > under the GPL License. Source code has not been made publicly available yet, 
 > but you can find screenshots and more information on our web site : 
 > www.vnet-project.org .

 > 

 > The source code should be made available as soon as the Savannah account is 
 > available (and when we have finished adding the GPL stuff at the top of each 
 > file) and we are planning to do a beta release on the 14th of June.
 > 
 > Other Software Required:
 > We depend on a few libraries : OpenGL, SDL, zlib, OpenSSL (optionnal), Perl5 
 > (optionnal)
 > 
 > Other Comments:

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