[Fedora-legal-list] Update on Fedora treatment of Nmap licensing

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I've done a long overdue review of the various Nmap licenses and have
updated fedora-license-data accordingly.

1. LicenseRef-Nmap: not-allowed
Related issue: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/543

This is Callaway "Nmap", i.e. the GPLv2-incompatible GPLv2 gloss
commented on here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Nmap
This license was classified as "good" but on a new review, that
assessment seems unjustified and inconsistent with the analysis of the
subsequent licenses. While we should be very reluctant to overturn a
past "good" classification I don't see any other option here.
But there is a usage exception that says versions of Nmap covered by
this license can continue to be included in Fedora Linux indefinitely.
(I thought of limiting it to a couple of releases.)

2. LicenseRef-NPSL-0.92: not-allowed
Related issue: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/542

This was "NPSL" (on the "bad" list) prior to the migration to SPDX
identifiers. See:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/GZIDC4DHXZP67LFU7P2OT2AQVDJRHZ2M/
It was mistakenly imported into fedora-license-data as `LicenseRef-NPSL-0.94`.

3. LicenseRef-NPSL-0.93: not-allowed
Related issues:
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/541
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/540

This covers the multiple versions of Nmap licenses labeled as "Version
0.93" and "Version 0.94"

4. LicenseRef-NPSL-0.95: not-allowed
Related issue: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/539

This covers the multiple versions of Nmap licenses labeled as "Version 0.95".

Other relevant issues:
https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2199
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/147
https://bugs.gentoo.org/749390
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972216
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-10/msg00227.html
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/105119
https://labs.parabola.nu/issues/2966
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211571

Richard

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