The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

[Andreas Ericsson]

tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I also note that this guy said he would be releasing the NEW Nagios(r) not
> under the GPL but under a BSD licence because he preferred it!
> 

No, he said he would rewrite it from the ground up in a different 
language, thus creating a competing product which he will hold copyright 
to and therefore can do whatever he wants with.

> Are you allowed to do that? Change licensing schemes I mean? I thought only
> the original author of the original work could change the licence model. But
> I may be wrong
> 

The original author has nothing to do with it. It's the copyright 
holders call to decide what license he wants. In opensource-projects the 
original author is usually the copyright-holder, but not always. In the 
corporate world it's the company you work for that holds copyright to 
the code you write during business hours, unless you're willing to take 
a quite serious paycut or you're the leader of a very large 
opensource-project (like Linus Thorvalds) and can get paid a nice round 
sum for just doing what you've always done with no strings attached.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom Welsh
> 

-- 
Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
OP5 AB
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andreas.ericsson at op5.se


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