From: Brett Gilio <brettg@gnu.org>
To: Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Did nmap just become non-free?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:19:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mu0phd5n.fsf@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuuxptfu.fsf@gnu.org> (Marius Bakke's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2020 02:00:53 +0200")
Marius Bakke <marius@gnu.org> writes:
>
> ...I'm fairly certain this is not an acceptable license for Guix, or
> free software distributions in general.
>
This is definitely not a consistent license for us.
> So I think we should revert the license change, as well as the update
> to 7.90 which introduced the new license.
>
> Now to read the previous license text, perhaps that will help me sleep..
>
As to how to fix it, I think we will need to revert the change, and also
make note of the FINAL version of nmap that was still compliant with FSDG.
--
Brett M. Gilio
<brettg@gnu.org>
https://brettgilio.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-14 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-14 0:00 Did nmap just become non-free? Marius Bakke
2020-10-14 0:19 ` Brett Gilio [this message]
2020-10-14 22:12 ` Marius Bakke
2020-10-14 22:52 ` Brett Gilio
2020-10-15 0:13 ` zimoun
2020-10-15 16:02 ` Brett Gilio
2020-10-15 8:51 ` Andreas Enge
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