Nagios Interoperability

[Andreas Ericsson]

sean finney wrote:
> 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.  
> 

Think client-server exchange. Webbrowsers wouldn't have to be GPL'd even 
if Apache was. This is basically the same thing.

> 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 :)
> 

Money, money, money. It's so foney (?). It's a hackers world. ;)

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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