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Re: Revisiting the Nmap Public Source License
From: Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:24:36 -0700
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Henri Doreau <henri.doreau () gmail com>wrote:
2013/3/27 Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>: To my understanding, having a project-specific license might have the following drawbacks:
Well, Nmap already has a project-specific license which is GPLv2 modified by various clarifications and exceptions. This new license is similar (GPLv2 with various exceptions and additions) but has its own name to make it easier for people to understand that it is different. That being said, I agree that having our own license (as we do now, and as would continue with the new license) can be problematic. It would be better to find one of the existing open source license which meets our needs and prevents abuses such as the download.com fiasco. But GPLv2 by itself doesn't do it, and I didn't see anything too compelling last time I looked (5+ years ago). I'll try to review the other options again, and of course I'm open to suggestions. Here is a list of OSI-approved open source licenses: http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical Cheers, Fyodor _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/
Current thread:
- Re: Revisiting the Nmap Public Source License Henri Doreau (Apr 07)
- Re: Revisiting the Nmap Public Source License Fyodor (Apr 08)
- Re: Revisiting the Nmap Public Source License Henri Doreau (Apr 09)
- Re: Revisiting the Nmap Public Source License Fyodor (Apr 08)