Nagios Interoperability

[sean finney]

hey thibault,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:11:42PM +0200, Thibault Genessay wrote:
> The problem is that the GPL states that any *interface* must be 
> provided. Hence the XML schema or any other well-defined method would 
> imply making the specs themselves GPL'd, and thus we did not solve 
> anything. (But I might be wrong on that topic).

i guess that's a little tricky.  from my experience, though, if the schema
definition already existed, or was seperately released and developed,
you wouldn't be breaking any licenses merely providing compatibility
with said definitions.  

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:34:11PM +0200, Thibault Genessay wrote:
> >What about the most simple solution: get a proper license from Ethan.
> >The GPL is the default license, Ethan can give you a custom license if
> >he wants to.
> >
> Why not after all ... But I doubt Ethan would allow such a license just 
> for me (and actually I see no reason why I could do something the others 
> cannot). Anyway I think that it would be an improvement to open a few of 
> the specs. of Nagios through the use of an LGPL shared lib.

i can't speak for anyone but myself... but if someone came along to me
wanting an alternate license for a gpl'd project of mine, there's a
chance i could be persuaded to do so if there were some personal
incentive :)


	sean
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