On Sat, 2019-04-13 at 21:52 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > 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.
Thanks for clarifying that. I have to admit I didn't really understand
what they meant in that bug report. However, I suppose this doesn't
invalidate the remaining points. Should I update the mask message?
> > 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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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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