Hi
Nmap license is listed as a combination of GPL, LGPL and BSD in the Fedora package however the COPYING file has very specific interpretations and exceptions to GPL. Is this still considered plain GPL?
https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/COPYING
Rahul
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:58:09PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
Nmap license is listed as a combination of GPL, LGPL and BSD in the Fedora package however the COPYING file has very specific interpretations and exceptions to GPL. Is this still considered plain GPL?
No, it shouldn't be seen as plain GPL. I'd say this is a free software license but is sufficiently more restrictive than conventional interpretations of GPLv2 to the point of being GPL-incompatible, and indeed the authors seem to acknowledge this. It should have a distinct license tag.
- RF
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
No, it shouldn't be seen as plain GPL. I'd say this is a free software license but is sufficiently more restrictive than conventional interpretations of GPLv2 to the point of being GPL-incompatible, and indeed the authors seem to acknowledge this. It should have a distinct license tag.
Thanks for the quick confirmation. Filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1055861
Rahul
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