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 _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal