Re: [PATCH] tests: Replace ncat with socat in migration test and drop ncat from containers

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> writes:

> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>
> nmap / ncat has a somewhat problematic license (e.g. saying claiming
> that derived work is also considered for software that "is designed
> specifically to execute Covered Software and parse the results", e.g.
> by executing ncat from your own program, you might already fall into
> this category) - so for example in openSUSE 16, you can only find it
> in the "non-OSS" repository.
>
> We are currently only using it in the migration functional test, and
> that likely does not fall into this "derived work" category yet (since
> it is also doing some other stuff), but still, to be safe, we should
> move away from using it now.
>
> Unfortunately, switching to one of the other flavors of netcat is
> also not a real option (see commit f700abbbeb6ab68a3446d1fb168a934d),
> but socat should be a solid replacement here instead.
>
> To avoid that someone else easily uses ncat again, let's also remove
> it from our container files now.
>
> Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

Queued to testing/next, thanks.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro