2009/1/10 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano > <giuseppe.fuggiano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL? > > First why do you assume it was GPL before? Can you emphatically state > that the license on the version you are expecting was in fact the GPL? > I can not find reference to the GPL in packaging of other > distributions that I have just checked. OpenSuse and Debian ship a > netcat which is effectively public domain, according to the copyright > notices I have found. >From the sources... check the COPYING file. http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/n/ne/netcat/netcat-0.7.1.tar.gz I was talking about the 0.7.1 version shipped by my previous distribution, which in fact is not updated since 2004. > Second, since the Fedora package points you to the upstream source you > have the ability to check the license for yourself quite easily. I > don't think its GPL by looking at the c files in the openbsd cvs > system. I should file a bug about that against the nc package to get > its license tag changed accordingly. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/nc/ It seems to be a BSD license. I choosen Linux for the GPL license and I usually avoid the non-GPL software (Free Software) when adviced of that, of course. So, let's install *BSD. -- Giuseppe Fuggiano -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
