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Hanno Stock (hefe_bia) (hanno-stock) wrote : Re: libapache2-mod-security not found in 8.04 repositories

There is/was a licensing problem with mod_security that makes the distribution of the binary illegal. (See bug #19832)

However upstream has just recently added a license exception, which might solve this issue. Debian-Legal has been notified, but no decision has been made, yet.
(See http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.legal/browse_thread/thread/d4b4a74c82042abd)