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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-analyzer/gnu-netcat
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2019 21:02:08
Message-Id: f5e768de85a431b7d6ccc43a1f51e547df146c27.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: net-analyzer/gnu-netcat by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 21:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 > > > > > > On Sat, 13 Apr 2019, Michał Górny wrote:
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".)
14 >
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 Thanks for clarifying that. I have to admit I didn't really understand
19 what they meant in that bug report. However, I suppose this doesn't
20 invalidate the remaining points. Should I update the mask message?
21
22 > > The current version is from 2004, and carries
23 > > # some local patches. Last upstream commits are from 2013, and involve
24 > > # three successive branches, the 0.7.x not having a release since 2004,
25 > > # and the two remaining branches never seeing a single release.
26 > > # The suggested alternatives are net-analyzer/{netcat,openbsd-netcat}.
27 > > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #601742.
28 > > net-analyzer/gnu-netcat
29 >
30 > Ulrich
31
32 --
33 Best regards,
34 Michał Górny

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