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I wonder what the reasoning for open sourcing it now. And why not from the get go instead of decades later. Licence choices are obviously up to the authors. Bu
by short12 5y ago
I wonder what the reasoning for open sourcing it now. And why not from the get go instead of decades later. Licence choices are obviously up to the authors. But at this point it is more a museum relic than anything practical
- kortilla 5y agoThis is the reason: > at this point it is more a museum relic than anything practical
- mydeskistoosm 5y agoWere the records of payment a method to keep track of who might be using it?
- short12 5y agoLol people paid for it? That was in the era of WinRAR and WinZip. There must be dozens of people that paid for those pieces of software
- mike_d 5y agoThe rights to L0phtCrack were purchased about a year ago by a company that made password cracking rigs for large companies to audit their employees passwords. They filed bankruptcy due to the GPU shortage changing their COGS overnight. When payments stopped being made the license reverted back to the author and he open sourced it.