2009/1/9 Jeff Spaleta <jspal...@gmail.com>: > Fedora's package uses the nc codebase from openBSD. > rpm -qi nc > > We package things with the upstream project url encoded in the header > information so you know exactly where the sourcecode base is coming > from in our packages. Do the other distributions you use do they > same? Do you know where the upstream source distribution of their > netcat package is?
Yes, probably from the "old" netcat. > Is there another actively maintained netcat upstream project codebase > that you were expecting to find? My understanding is that that the > netcat 1.10 version that some other distros ship..is a dead upstream > project. If I'm mistaken, please let me know where it is. I don't know exactly. But probably the choice of take that upstream project codebase makes some sense... > The switch to OpenBSD's actively maintained netcat codebase was made > in March 2005. Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL? -- Giuseppe Fuggiano -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines