[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/nmap: fix license
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Mon Dec 14 14:50:39 UTC 2020
>>>>> "Fabrice" == Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com> writes:
> Commit 78dc1f185ba0c8c9085d44318f72ab172867b147 forgot to update the
> license file from COPYING to LICENSE.
> Here is an extract of the ChangeLog for Nmap 7.90 [2020-10-03]:
> Upgraded the Nmap license form a sort of hacked-up version of GPLv2 to a
> cleaner and better organized version (still based on GPLv2) now called
> the Nmap Public Source License to avoid confusion. See
> https://nmap.org/npsl/ for more details and annotated license text. This
> NPSL project was started in 2006 (community discussion here:
> https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q4/126) and then it lost momentum for
> 7 years until it was restarted in 2013
> (https://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2013/q1/399) and then we got distracted
> by development again. We still have some ideas for improving the NPSL,
> but it's already much better than the current license, so we're applying
> NPSL Version 0.92 to the code now and can make improvements later if
> needed. This does not change the license of previous Nmap releases.
> Fixes:
> - http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/8cef6a5e99ae341cced405a389346e2faccf6eec
> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
Committed, thanks.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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