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[PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum

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Message #20 received at 31307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31307 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>
Subject: Re: [bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit
 from Boum
Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 06:12:24 +0000

Chris Marusich transcribed 1.7K bytes:
> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > We'll see what they say!
> 
> Upstream has confirmed that the license is GPLv2:
> 
> https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/mat-dev/2018-April/000158.html
> 
> They also confirmed the following:
> 
> * MAT is not actively maintained and doesn't run under Python 3.
> 
> * MAT2 is under development.
> 
> * MAT has some known limitations, "like leaving metadata in file
> embedded in PDF, like images."
> 
> That said, even upstream said that we should go with MAT, since there is
> no known better alternative, and later we can switch to MAT2.  I think
> we should add it, without worrying about making the GUI work, and we
> should add these warnings to the package description.
> 
> Thoughts?

Okay for me.

> -- 
> Chris

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