nmap: copyright check, repack (Re: nmap: help wanted?)

Subject: nmap: copyright check, repack (Re: nmap: help wanted?)
From: bengen@debian.org (Hilko Bengen)
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:02:42 +0200
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20170907213838.220ff919@localhost> (Lukas Schwaighofer's message of "Thu, 7 Sep 2017 21:38:38 +0200")
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* Lukas Schwaighofer:

> bad news: we have to repack nmap. While trying to go through all the
> files I found the first real problem: mswin32/IPExport.h. The file
> contains "Copyright(c) Microsoft Corp., 1990-1999" with no other
> license terms.

If it was important for building, one could probably use ipexport.h from
MinGW instead...

> Now that we have to repack anyways:  Would it be acceptable to remove
> any other subprojects (like libpcap, libpcre, ?) from the nmap
> distribution that we do not use?

Sure. Just get rid of everything that isn't used in the build.

Thanks for looking into this.

Cheers,
-Hilko

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- nmap: help wanted?
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- nmap: copyright check, repack (Re: nmap: help wanted?)
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