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