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[$] A license change for Nmap
Wednesday January 13, 2021. 11:23 PM , from LWN.net
It may be kind of an obvious statement, but licensing terms matter in our
communities. Even a misplaced word or three can be fatal for a license, which is part of the motivation for the efforts to reduce license proliferation in free-software projects. Over the last few months, various distribution projects have been discussing changes made to the license for the Nmap network scanner; those changes seemed to be adding restrictions that would make the software non-free, though that was not the intent. But the incident does serve to show the importance of license clarity.
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