Article 5CSVF [$] A license change for Nmap

[$] A license change for Nmap

by
jake
from LWN.net on (#5CSVF)
It may be kind of an obvious statement, but licensing terms matter in ourcommunities. Even a misplaced word or three can be fatal for a license,which is part of the motivation for the efforts to reduce licenseproliferation in free-software projects. Over the last few months, variousdistribution projects have been discussing changes made to the license forthe Nmap network scanner; those changesseemed to be adding restrictions that would make the software non-free, thoughthat was not the intent. But the incident does serve to show the importance oflicense clarity.
External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://lwn.net/headlines/rss
Feed Title LWN.net
Feed Link https://lwn.net/
Reply 0 comments