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Sydney Morning Herald: Fyodor Pulls Nmap from SCO Products

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Sam Varghese
Feb 27, 2004

“One of the best-known network security scanners will no longer
be available with the SCO Group’s products, with its developer
saying he had terminated the company’s rights to redistribute any
version of the program with its products.

“Fyodor, whose Nmap (network mapper) security scanner is
extremely popular among geeks and even featured in the latest film
of the Matrix series, said in a message posted to the Bugtraq
mailing list, in which he announced the release of version 3.50,
that SCO had refused to accept the General Public License ‘claiming
that some preposterous theory of theirs makes it invalid (and even
unconstitutional)…!'”

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