On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 06:58:09PM -0500, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
Nmap license is listed as a combination of GPL, LGPL and BSD in the Fedora
package however the COPYING file has very specific interpretations and
exceptions to GPL. Is this still considered plain GPL?
https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/COPYING
No, it shouldn't be seen as plain GPL. I'd say this is a free software
license but is sufficiently more restrictive than conventional
interpretations of GPLv2 to the point of being GPL-incompatible, and
indeed the authors seem to acknowledge this. It should have a distinct
license tag.
- RF