Re: [GNU-linux-libre] is this work-group still serving the community?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

bill-auger <bill-auger@peers.community> writes:

> distros which distribute NMAP did roll it back, but of their own
> volition (or implicitly, in the case of pureos, as their NAMP is
> apparently taken from debian) - that is fine; but then guix
> moved it forward, apparently without asking the FSF if that was
> acceptable (or if they did ask the FSF, no one bothered to share
> that information with this work-group, where the question
> belongs, for the benefit of other distros)

Some references:

Commit 86fec62f0920d619b798639cbb728e9765ebd724 (2021-01-10) 
previously downgraded nmap 7.91 back to 7.80.  Commit 
1b313032943db85e0d6b8550d02671036f3a5d36 (2021-07-02) upgraded to 
7.91 with reference to 
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2199#issuecomment-792048244, 
which states that 7.91 can be used under the terms that apply to 
7.80.

If the terms of 7.80 were non-free then nmap should have been 
removed rather than freezing it at 7.80.

--
Ricardo