AW: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0,natively windows codes,support mysql,support agentless monitor , new web interface,more,Greatly

[Chester R. Hosey]

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:46 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
> Husch Andreas wrote:
> >>Original by Andreas Ericsson:
> >>[...]
> >>As for the GUI, I can't say if they've used GPL'd code or not. Judging
> > 
> > from the overall ethics of the company, I would like to urge all
> > developers of GPL'd Nagios-GUI's to take a good look at the snapshots
> > and see if any of seems to be generated by code (stylesheets) they
> > wrote.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > if i compare http://www.oreon.org/images/screenshots/home.jpg with the
> > screenshot http://www.sakersoft.org/images/screenshot/mhg_2.gif or
> > http://www.sakersoft.org/images/screenshot/bigmain-1.gif i think it is
> > sure that parts of the gui are taken from other projects.
> >  
> 
> Thanks. I've notified the Oreon project maintainer. Gawd, things like 
> this really pisses me off...
> 

It looks like Oreon is distributed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't see any requirement that
source be provided with derivative works.

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This may be legal per the license.

I don't see any use of Nagios trademarks on their website, but if this
email was sent by a SakerSoft employee there's still the claim that
they're trying to misrepresent the product using the Nagios trademark.

Can anyone comment on either issue?

Chet


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