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Increase copyright year to 2009, simplify/reword some derivative works text, and remove a confusing clause about selling proprietary front-ends to Nmap
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***********************IMPORTANT NMAP LICENSE TERMS************************
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* The Nmap Security Scanner is (C) 1996-2008 Insecure.Com LLC. Nmap is *
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* The Nmap Security Scanner is (C) 1996-2009 Insecure.Com LLC. Nmap is *
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* also a registered trademark of Insecure.Com LLC. This program is free *
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* software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the *
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* GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software *
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* o Links to a library or executes a program that does any of the above *
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* *
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* The term "Nmap" should be taken to also include any portions or derived *
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* works of Nmap. This list is not exclusive, but is just meant to *
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* clarify our interpretation of derived works with some common examples. *
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* These restrictions only apply when you actually redistribute Nmap. For *
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* example, nothing stops you from writing and selling a proprietary *
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* front-end to Nmap. Just distribute it by itself, and point people to *
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* http://nmap.org to download Nmap. *
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* *
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* We don't consider these to be added restrictions on top of the GPL, but *
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* just a clarification of how we interpret "derived works" as it applies *
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* to our GPL-licensed Nmap product. This is similar to the way Linus *
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* Torvalds has announced his interpretation of how "derived works" *
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* applies to Linux kernel modules. Our interpretation refers only to *
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* Nmap - we don't speak for any other GPL products. *
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* works of Nmap. This list is not exclusive, but is meant to clarify our *
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* interpretation of derived works with some common examples. Our *
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* interpretation applies only to Nmap--we don't speak for other people's *
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* GPL works. *
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* *
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* If you have any questions about the GPL licensing restrictions on using *
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* Nmap in non-GPL works, we would be happy to help. As mentioned above, *
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