Comment 0 for bug 12300

Package: nmap
Version: 3.75-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.1

The DFSG #5 states that "The license must not discriminate against any
person or group of persons."
Although nmap is liscenced under the GPL, it specifically forbids the
SCO Group from distributing nmap. I do not know if this is legally
binding, as it is in the changelog, and not the liscence file itself,
nor do I wish to keep nmap out of debian, I simply want to bring this to
people's attention.

The relevent section:
o SCO Corporation of Lindon, Utah (formerly Caldera) has lately taken
  to an extortion campaign of demanding license fees from Linux users
  for code that they themselves knowingly distributed under the terms
  of the GNU GPL. They have also refused to accept the GPL,claiming
  that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid. Meanwhile
  they have distributed GPL-licensed Nmap in (at least) their
  "Supplemental Open Source CD". In response to these blatant
  violations, and in accordance with section 4 of the GPL, we hereby
  terminate SCO's rights to redistribute any versions of Nmap in any
  of their products, including (without limitation) OpenLinux,
  Skunkware, OpenServer, and UNIXWare.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-astro
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages nmap depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-7 GCC support library
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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