Package: ftp.debian.org X-Debbugs-Cc: samuel...@debian.org Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1
Hello ftp-master team, I'm opening this bug to request an official position of the team on whether the NPSL license meets the DFSG requirements or not. There's some divergence of opinions on the matter and I think the only next step is to get an evaluation from the ftp-master team. FWIW I'm currently on the opinion that the license should be considered free due to its similarity with GPL2 (and copyleft licenses in general) but Hilko (the other maintainer) is on the side of considering it non-free due to a contamination issue. Sorry if I'm oversimplifying here, Hilko. Both mine and Hilko's points are better written in the references below. Related discussions: Thread on d-legal: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2022/09/msg00000.html Upstream discussion: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2199 Please consider that upstream is usually quite responsive in that Github issue and so we can make follow-up questions. We need to make a decision to understand if the current nmap we are shipping (in all our supported releases[0]) is DFSG-free or not. This decision should be done ideally before the freeze so we can take any required actions. Thank you, [0] At least one issue that I've seen raised is present in all versions of nmap we ship (since the first iteration of NPSL), which would mean even our package in oldstable and stable is non-free. -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
