license status of contributed icons?

[sean finney]

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.

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

================================================================================


	sean

[1] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
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