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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-analyzer/gnu-netcat
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:53:01
Message-Id: w6g5zrhsmx3.fsf@kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-analyzer/gnu-netcat by "Michał Górny"
1 >>>>> On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
2
3 > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (13 Apr 2019)
4 > # Unmaintained. Contains vulnerable code and a large number of unsolved
5 > # (upstream) issues, including licensing issues that prevented Debian
6 > # from including it.
7
8 I suppose that is referring to Debian bug 202475?
9 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=202475#61
10
11 If that's the case, it is their usual BS that they consider the FDL to
12 be a non-free license. (Basically, netcat.texi contains license texts
13 of the GPL and the FDL which by their very nature are "invariant".)
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15 This is not a concern for us. The FDL is approved by the FSF as a free
16 documentation license, and therefore it is in our @FREE license group.
17
18 > The current version is from 2004, and carries
19 > # some local patches. Last upstream commits are from 2013, and involve
20 > # three successive branches, the 0.7.x not having a release since 2004,
21 > # and the two remaining branches never seeing a single release.
22 > # The suggested alternatives are net-analyzer/{netcat,openbsd-netcat}.
23 > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #601742.
24 > net-analyzer/gnu-netcat
25
26 Ulrich

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