minor nsca license nit

Michael Thomas thomas at hep.caltech.edu
Fri Mar 21 00:21:39 CET 2008


Hi Jeff,

Goldschrafe, Jeffrey wrote:
> I built annsca/nsca-client package for Fedora/CentOS for my institution
> from a few weeks ago that I never got around to submitting. Might I see
> what you've got, so my environment doesn't get too out of line with
> what's eventually making it into Fedora?

The latest iteration can be found at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433547

Once accepted into Fedora, I plan to add it to the EPEL repository as 
well so that it's available for RHEL/CentOS/SL systems.

Regards,

--Wart

> Jeff Goldschrafe <goldschr at cshl.edu>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net 
>> [mailto:nagios-devel-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>> Of Michael Thomas
>> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 7:13 PM
>> To: nagios-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-devel] minor nsca license nit
>>
>> I'm preparing a package for nsca for distribution with 
>> Fedora, and ran into a small nit with respect to the license. 
>>  Fedora is getting pretty picky about having accurate 
>> licensing information for packages, so I was hoping that 
>> someone here could clear this up.
>>
>> All of the *.c and *.h sourcce files for nsca claim to be valid for
>> GPLv2 and later, except for nsca.c and send_nsca.c which simply say:
>>   * License: GPL v2
>> That is, these two files omit the 'or (at your option) any 
>> later version' clause.
>>
>> Is the intended license for nsca 'GPLv2 only', or 'GPLv2 or 
>> later'?  Are there any upcoming releases planned that might 
>> be able to include this clarification?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --Wart
>>
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