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>>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (13 Apr 2019) |
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> # Unmaintained. Contains vulnerable code and a large number of unsolved |
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> # (upstream) issues, including licensing issues that prevented Debian |
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> # from including it. |
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I suppose that is referring to Debian bug 202475? |
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202475#61 |
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If that's the case, it is their usual BS that they consider the FDL to |
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be a non-free license. (Basically, netcat.texi contains license texts |
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of the GPL and the FDL which by their very nature are "invariant".) |
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This is not a concern for us. The FDL is approved by the FSF as a free |
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documentation license, and therefore it is in our @FREE license group. |
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> The current version is from 2004, and carries |
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> # some local patches. Last upstream commits are from 2013, and involve |
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> # three successive branches, the 0.7.x not having a release since 2004, |
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> # and the two remaining branches never seeing a single release. |
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> # The suggested alternatives are net-analyzer/{netcat,openbsd-netcat}. |
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> # Removal in 30 days. Bug #601742. |
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> net-analyzer/gnu-netcat |
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Ulrich |