i could respond to many of gnutoo's statements on today's other thread - they are quite important and thoughtful; but i do not want us two to monopolize the conversation on the first day - for now i will address this one point, on a new thread, as it would otherwise drift off-topic
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 14:40:34 +0200 Denis wrote: > If it's not already done somewhere else (like in Debian for instance), > we probably need to fork nmap in the meantime. as i understand this, a fork would not help - the recent hubbub over the new license exposed the fact that the parts of the new license, which induced most of the new complaints, were also in the previous license, which nmap had been under for over a decade - the upstream was forthright about that fact, early on in the debate - they were confused why people were complaining so fervently; because, the new license did not introduce those concerns - i suspect that is why the FSF has not yet rescinded the freeze, despite that over six months ago, the nmap upstream reinstated the previous license - they may be now, doubting if nmap was _ever_ libre - ive seen discussions within other distros, which echoed that doubt so apparently, the point at which to libre-fork nmap (before the dubious licensing terms were added), was about 15 years ago - sure we could fork it; but would anyone use it?
