Bug#1025650: ftp.debian.org: Nmap Public Source License Version 0.94 - Is it DFSG-compliant?

Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:10:02 +0200

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Hello

Am 16.07.26 um 18:31 schrieb Andrey Rakhmatullin:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 06:05:57PM +0200, Mechtilde wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I start to review.
>>
>> So I looked through the links and read the first lines from
>> https://nmap.org/npsl/npsl-annotated.html
>>
>> The first line says:" The NPSL itself is rather terse, ...".
>> And in the third line: "These annotations are not part of the license 
>> itself, a legal document, or legal advice."
>>
>> Where can we find the original license text
> 
> The text outside the boxes or, as the second paragraph of the first box 
> links, https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/LICENSE


This isn't a "rather terse" text. So it will take time to compare this 
license text with the underlying GPL 2 (only) and the other licenses, 
e.g the not DFSG-compliant AFL-3.0.

More info will come later

Mechtilde
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