Insecure qui vient de sortir la vesion 3.50 de nmap (Network Mapper),
son outil permettant de scanner l'ensemble d'un réseau, est le premier à porter
un coup à SCO.
En effet, en réponse aux diverses manoeuvres de SCO pour récupérer des droits d'auteurs
sur Linux, Insécure vient tout simplement d'utiliser la clause 4 de la licence GPL et
interdit à SCO de distribuer nmap dans leurs produits comme il le
faisait habituellement. De plus, Insecure vient également d'arrêter le support
de leur version pour openServer et UNIXWare deux distributions UNIX appartenant à SCO.
Voici le petit paragraphe dans lequel Insecure explique son acte:
"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 (and even unconstitutional)! 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. We have also stopped supporting the OpenServer and UNIXWare platforms."
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