Nmap License

[Rahul Sundaram]

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

[Richard Fontana]

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?
>
> https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/COPYING

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

[Rahul Sundaram]

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