[bug#31307] [PATCH] Add MAT, the Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit from Boum

[Nils Gillmann]

Chris Marusich transcribed 1.7K bytes:
> Chris Marusich <address@hidden> 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