The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

[tom.welsh at bt.com]

Hi All,

I also note that this guy said he would be releasing the NEW Nagios(r) not under the GPL but under a BSD licence because he preferred it!

Are you allowed to do that? Change licensing schemes I mean? I thought only the original author of the original work could change the licence model. But I may be wrong

And you would obviously be changing the name as one of the reasons for Ethan moving from Netsaint to Nagios(r) was that he could trademark the name.

Also on another point. I apologise for the nagios demo being down. I will be paying my hosting company tomorrow ( DOH!!) so hopefully it and the other squareBOX resources should be back up and running over the weekend. Apologies for any probs this may have caused.

Cheers

Tom Welsh




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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Rui Miguel
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Sent: 07 July 2004 15:28
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 05:38 -0700, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> Controlled by one company? Perhaps I should point out that C# is an ECMA 
> standard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/ C# is as controlled by one 
> company as C is.
> 
> As far as bugs go, it's harder to accidentally write bugs into your code 
> with C# vs C. C# is a much more easily maintained language, tracking 
> down bugs when they occur is much easier because of things like 
> exceptions instead of good ol' segfaults.

Then by all means, if you think so much of it do write a monitoring
clone by yourself. I for one will never touch it. And not exactly
because of all the dubious licensing problems (some parts are ECMA, some
parts are patented, and we've not even started talking about submarine
patents yet... like those that hit GIF, JPEG, etc...)

It's overkill for an application that should be very small and simple.

> The nagios.cfg as an XML file would be just fine IMHO, there's not that 
> much that you configure and you really hardly ever change it. Hosts.cfg 
> and services, extinfo, etc should definitely be in a DB, which I've planned.

It would only increase in size by several orders of magnitude, without
real advantages other than relying on a library to parse.

Rui


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