Nagios Interoperability

[Thibault Genessay]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> sean finney wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
That's because the HTTP, FTP, ... protocols are not covered by the GPL 
.Rather, they are in the public domain and are established after RFCs 
have been written and reviewed by a group of people (namely, companies 
and opensource groups).
In our case, I'm not against writing a protocol for sending Nagios 
information over the network; in fact I've already done so (in part). 
What would be important to define is whether the structures of Nagios 
could be exposed through that definition.

>> 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. ;)
>
I know a few nice restaurants nearby which serve the famous grenouilles 
sautées au beurre and the incredible poulet de Bresse aux morilles, le 
tout arrosé d'un petit Saint-Véran dont vous me direz des nouvelles; 
after what I think nothing can be refused.

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