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Re: Did nmap just become non-free?
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Marius Bakke |
Subject: |
Re: Did nmap just become non-free? |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:12:45 +0200 |
Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org> writes:
> Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> ...I'm fairly certain this is not an acceptable license for Guix, or
>> free software distributions in general.
>>
>
> This is definitely not a consistent license for us.
Having re-read the original text (without the annotations), the thing
that stands out is:
Proprietary software companies wishing to use or incorporate Covered
Software within their programs must contact Licensor to purchase a
separate license. Open source developers who wish to incorporate parts
of Covered Software into free software with conflicting licenses may
write Licensor to request a waiver of terms.
From <https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/LICENSE>.
So a "proprietary software company" cannot use or incorporate nmap
within a program, even if that program is free (as in software)?
>> So I think we should revert the license change, as well as the update
>> to 7.90 which introduced the new license.
>>
>> Now to read the previous license text, perhaps that will help me sleep..
>>
>
>
> As to how to fix it, I think we will need to revert the change, and also
> make note of the FINAL version of nmap that was still compliant with FSDG.
I'll see what licensing@fsf.org has to say first.
PS: Licenses make terrible bed-side reading!
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