@ 10/08/2004 15:05 : wrote Mahesh T. Pai :
web interface in lists.debian.org did not play nice with my work mail server, proxy and my mozilla. sorry.Humberto Massa said on Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:21:56AM -0300,: > You are right. this will render nmap undistributable by Debian. Who's right? and why?
Glenn Maynard is right:Notwithstanding the phrase "we don't consider these to be added restrictions", the "if you execute nmap you are a derivative work" phrase is both a NOP (it's the law that defines derivative works, not the license -- what the license can do is tell [via stoppel] what you WILL NOT consider a derivative work) and an added restriction (it's considering MORE things derivative than the GPL -- the GPL does not define derivatives, ie it gets the definition from copyright law)
In other words: either the nmap folks drop the "clarification" or nmap is non-DFSG-free *and* non-distributable (GPL+restrictions) and goes away from Debian. For reference and fun, one can read the reiser4 "non-plagiarism" license snafu, in this same list.
-- br,M