license status of contributed icons?

[Andreas Ericsson]

sean finney wrote:
> hi andreas, gary,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 08:17:28PM -0800, nagios-devel-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
>>Message: 2
>>From: "Cook, Garry" <GWCOOK at mactec.com>
>>
>>Mine should be considered GPL (Cook logos). I think that I submitted
>>them with a README stating this, but that was a while ago, hard to
>>remember. Perhaps it's time for an update.
> 
> 
> great, thanks a lot for clarifying that.  we've been wanting to
> have a nagios-icons package for quite some time now, and this
> is definitely a step in that direction.
> 
> 
>>From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
>>The licensing depends on where you are. Most countries have amendments 
>>to their copyright laws preventing person a to profit from person b's 
>>work of art without paying royalties, meaning you can't sell the logos 
>>explicitly or include it in a product in such a way that it 
>>significantly raises the market value of that same product.
> 
> 
> ...unless they explicitly allow that with via a free software license
> allowing unlimited redistribution, such as the GPL.  this is exactly
> why i'm trying to get a clarification on these terms from the authors.
> 
> 
>>This assumes there's money involved ofcourse, so I don't think the 
>>Debian project is in any real danger.
> 
> 
> actually, if people were not allowed to redistribute the icons for
> profit, it could not be included in debian.  take a look at clause 1 of
> the debian free software guidelines[1] to see what i mean.  
> 
> 
>>Btw, when you're done with the .deb, would you mind uploading the 
>>.spec-file equivalence to be included in the distro dir of Nagios?
> 
> 
> the spec file equivalent would be a ./debian subdirectory, and possibly
> patches to the source (though our custom with the current nagios
> packages is to have the diffs embedded in ./debian).  
> 
> however, keeping a debian directory in sync with what's actually
> in debian might be more hassle then it's worth.  if you really want to
> do this, we'd need to work out the logistics.
> 

Oh. I thought it was something along the lines of a rpm .spec file. Do 
you mean dpkg doesn't have specifications at all?

> it would probably be best to have a README.Debian in this distro
> directory which says something like
> 
> ================================================================================
> 
> for the 1.x series of nagios, there are three different nagios packages
> available, which use different backends for storing information:
> 
> nagios-text
> nagios-mysql
> nagios-pgsql
> 
> for the 2.x series of nagios (proper information supplied here when
> we figure out what we're actually going to do).
> 
> to install one of these on your debian system, do:
> 
> apt-get install nagios-text
> 
> (assuming you want the first option)
> 
> if you would like to create your own debian package, make sure you have
> a deb-src line in /etc/apt/sources.list and get started with the
> following command:
> 
> apt-get source nagios
> 
> you may also want to consider installing these other nagios related packages:
> 
> nagios-plugins - Plugins for the nagios network monitoring and management system
> nsca - Nagios service monitor agent
> nagios-nrpe-plugin - Nagios Remote Plugin Exectutor Plugin
> nagios-nrpe-server - Nagios Remote Plugin Exectutor Server
> nagios-nrpe-doc - Documentation for nagios-nrpe
> nagios-statd-client - nagios client for montioring remote system information
> nagios-statd-server - nagios server for monitoring remote system information
> nagat - Nagios Administration Tool
> 

nagios-statd is obsolete and shouldn't really be distributed by a 
dependency-handling package managing system.

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


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