minor nsca license nit

Goldschrafe, Jeffrey goldschr at cshl.edu
Fri Mar 21 00:15:20 CET 2008


I built annsca/nsca-client package for Fedora/CentOS for my institution
from a few weeks ago that I never got around to submitting. Might I see
what you've got, so my environment doesn't get too out of line with
what's eventually making it into Fedora?

Jeff Goldschrafe <goldschr at cshl.edu>
Systems Engineer
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
1 Bungtown Road
Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
(516) 367-6966
http://www.cshl.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Michael Thomas
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:13 PM
> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-devel] minor nsca license nit
> 
> I'm preparing a package for nsca for distribution with 
> Fedora, and ran into a small nit with respect to the license. 
>  Fedora is getting pretty picky about having accurate 
> licensing information for packages, so I was hoping that 
> someone here could clear this up.
> 
> All of the *.c and *.h sourcce files for nsca claim to be valid for
> GPLv2 and later, except for nsca.c and send_nsca.c which simply say:
>   * License: GPL v2
> That is, these two files omit the 'or (at your option) any 
> later version' clause.
> 
> Is the intended license for nsca 'GPLv2 only', or 'GPLv2 or 
> later'?  Are there any upcoming releases planned that might 
> be able to include this clarification?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --Wart
> 
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