2009/1/10 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com>:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano
<giuseppe.fuggiano(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL?
First why do you assume it was GPL before? Can you emphatically state
that the license on the version you are expecting was in fact the GPL?
I can not find reference to the GPL in packaging of other
distributions that I have just checked. OpenSuse and Debian ship a
netcat which is effectively public domain, according to the copyright
notices I have found.
From the sources... check the COPYING file.
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourcefor...
I was talking about the 0.7.1 version shipped by my previous
distribution, which in fact is not updated since 2004.
Second, since the Fedora package points you to the upstream source
you
have the ability to check the license for yourself quite easily. I
don't think its GPL by looking at the c files in the openbsd cvs
system. I should file a bug about that against the nc package to get
its license tag changed accordingly.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/
It seems to be a BSD license. I choosen Linux for the GPL license and
I usually avoid the non-GPL software (Free Software) when adviced of
that, of course.
So, let's install *BSD.
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Giuseppe Fuggiano