Netcat on Fedora is a different Netcat

[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
> <giuseppe.fuggiano at gmail.com> 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 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.
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Craig