Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:58 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Craig White wrote: > > http://directory.fsf.org/project/netcat/ > > which distributions ship that. OpenSuse isn't shipping that as far as > I can tell. Neither is Debian stable. Fedora's never shipped that.

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > It seems to be a BSD license. I choosen Linux for the GPL license and > I usually avoid the non-GPL software (Free Software) when adviced of > that, of course. 2 clause BSD is free software, and in fact GPL-compatible. It's not copyleft itself, but that's no reason to

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Craig White wrote: > http://directory.fsf.org/project/netcat/ which distributions ship that. OpenSuse isn't shipping that as far as I can tell. Neither is Debian stable. Fedora's never shipped that. It appears to be a fork of the original codebase if I'm reading

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Matthew Flaschen
Craig White wrote: >> I can not find reference to the GPL in packaging of other >> distributions that I have just checked. OpenSuse and Debian ship a >> netcat which is effectively public domain, according to the copyright >> notices I have found. > > http://directory.fsf.org/project/netcat/

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 00:41 +0100, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > 2009/1/10 Jeff Spaleta : > > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano > > wrote: > >> Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL? > > > > First why do you assume it was GPL before? Can you emphatica

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
2009/1/10 Jeff Spaleta : > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano > wrote: >> Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL? > > First why do you assume it was GPL before? Can you emphatically state > that the license on the version you are expecting was in fac

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 14:24 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano > wrote: > > Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL? > > First why do you assume it was GPL before? Can you emphatically state > that the license on the vers

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > Does that netcat version is shipped under BSD license, or still GNU/GPL? First why do you assume it was GPL before? Can you emphatically state that the license on the version you are expecting was in fact the GPL? I can not find reference

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
2009/1/9 Jeff Spaleta : > 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 t

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Phil Meyer
Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: Hi list. I recently installed Fedora and today I got a little time after work to configure it on my laptop. The first thing I did was configure the network to access to the internet and to my LAN at home. To test the connection I used netcat to listen to a dummy port,

Re: Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: > Hi list. > > I recently installed Fedora and today I got a little time after work > to configure it on my laptop. The first thing I did was configure the > network to access to the internet and to my LAN at home. To test the > connectio

Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

2009-01-09 Thread Giuseppe Fuggiano
Hi list. I recently installed Fedora and today I got a little time after work to configure it on my laptop. The first thing I did was configure the network to access to the internet and to my LAN at home. To test the connection I used netcat to listen to a dummy port, as I usually do. The thing