Re: nmap license is incompatible with GPL

2018-04-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: nmap license is incompatible with GPL"): > On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 11:42 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > The license in particular also forbids front-ends parsing nmap's output > > that are released under a license not compatible with n

Re: nmap license is incompatible with GPL

2018-04-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2018-04-10 at 11:42 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Hi, > > [ BCC'ed maintainers of packages mentioned below ] > > Chris Lamb pointed out that nmap uses a special version of the GPL-2 > which is incompatible with the standard GPL license: > > +--- > > Because this license imposes specia

nmap license is incompatible with GPL

2018-04-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ BCC'ed maintainers of packages mentioned below ] Chris Lamb pointed out that nmap uses a special version of the GPL-2 which is incompatible with the standard GPL license: +--- | Because this license imposes special exceptions to the GPL, Covered | work may not be combined (even as part of