2009/1/9 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta(a)gmail.com>:
Fedora's package uses the nc codebase from openBSD.
rpm -qi nc
We package things with the upstream project url encoded in the header
information so you know exactly where the sourcecode base is coming
from in our packages. Do the other distributions you use do they
same? Do you know where the upstream source distribution of their
netcat package is?
Yes, probably from the "old" netcat.
Is there another actively maintained netcat upstream project
codebase
that you were expecting to find? My understanding is that that the
netcat 1.10 version that some other distros ship..is a dead upstream
project. If I'm mistaken, please let me know where it is.
I don't know exactly. But probably the choice of take that upstream
project codebase makes some sense...
The switch to OpenBSD's actively maintained netcat codebase was
made
in March 2005.
Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL?
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Giuseppe Fuggiano