• Bug#266205: nmap is linked with OpenSSL

    From Ivan Nestlerode@1:229/2 to All on Tue Aug 17 02:50:05 2004
    From: [email protected]

    Package: nmap
    Version: 3.55-1
    Severity: normal

    nmap is licensed under the GPL and is linked against OpenSSL which has
    an advertising clause. I do not think this is legal.

    For another example within Debian, Ethereal (GPL) is not linked against
    OpenSSL for this reason. This is unfortunate because it takes SNMP support out of Ethereal, but it seems to be necessary.

    It would seem that nmap needs to be built without OpenSSL support
    disabled for the same reason (or maybe it could use gnutls).

    Maybe the upstream would add the "OpenSSL exception" to their license
    (like the Nessus authors did if you read their license).

    -Ivan

    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 3.1
    APT prefers unstable
    APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
    Architecture: i386 (i686)
    Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
    Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

    Versions of packages nmap depends on:
    ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
    ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7d-5 SSL shared libraries
    ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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  • From Fyodor@1:229/2 to Ivan Nestlerode on Tue Aug 17 04:10:07 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 08:25:25PM -0400, Ivan Nestlerode wrote:

    Maybe the upstream would add the "OpenSSL exception" to their license
    (like the Nessus authors did if you read their license).

    I can probably do this. I'll investigate.

    -Fyodor


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