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charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::631; envelope-from=alex.bennee@linaro.org; helo=mail-ej1-x631.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: qemu development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Thomas Huth writes: > From: Thomas Huth > > 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. Berrang=C3=A9 > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Queued to testing/next, thanks. --=20 Alex Benn=C3=A9e Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro