@abortretryfail Maybe, maybe not -- it isn't very interesting topic at this point.
The FLOSS community needs is to know the terms of nmap, in a clear fashion. The maintainer disagrees that nmap is non-free software / close source software, despite what NPSL license says. Can we use it or not?
If he would just go out and explicitly state that no, this is not free software / open source, the whole discussion could be used for something more productive (like developing free network scanner).