Fedora rejects SQLninja

The minutes from the November 8 Fedora Board meeting include a discussion of whether SQLninja - an SQL injection testing tool - should be included in the distribution. The answer was "no," and a new guideline was added to the rules: "Where, objectively speaking, the package has essentially no useful foreseeable purposes other than those that are highly likely to be illegal or unlawful in one or more major jurisdictions in which Fedora is distributed or used, such that distributors of Fedora will face heightened legal risk if Fedora were to include the package, then the Fedora Project Board has discretion to deny inclusion of the package for that reason alone."

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