nmap: copyright check, repack (Re: nmap: help wanted?)
Hilko Bengen
bengen at debian.org
Thu Sep 7 22:02:42 UTC 2017
* 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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