On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 11:33 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 Also, a couple of related SPDX issues: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/1121 https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2492 -- _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
