Re: [Nagios-devel] Nagios active check performance limits
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 1:00 pm
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Gaspar, Carson wrote:
>> Once the USENIX folks get the talk video up, I'll post a link to it
>> here. And with any luck, I'll get approval to release my source by the
>> end of the year (I have approval in principal, but I still need to pass
>> code review).
>
> If the source is based on Nagios code, it's illegal to stop you from
> releasing it. One of those nifty things about GPL.
That's not totally true. If you're employed by a company and develop
code out of GPL projects for internal use only and the company isn't
redistributing anything, they can forbid you to release the modified
code, as it it owned by the company.
What is illegal is to redistribute binaries in any form (even bundled in
a hardware device) without making the code clearly available to whom you
distributed it to. Redistributing the code under another license is
obviously illegal as well.
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Thomas
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Gaspar, Carson wrote:
>> Once the USENIX folks get the talk video up, I'll post a link to it
>> here. And with any luck, I'll get approval to release my source by the
>> end of the year (I have approval in principal, but I still need to pass
>> code review).
>
> If the source is based on Nagios code, it's illegal to stop you from
> releasing it. One of those nifty things about GPL.
That's not totally true. If you're employed by a company and develop
code out of GPL projects for internal use only and the company isn't
redistributing anything, they can forbid you to release the modified
code, as it it owned by the company.
What is illegal is to redistribute binaries in any form (even bundled in
a hardware device) without making the code clearly available to whom you
distributed it to. Redistributing the code under another license is
obviously illegal as well.
- --
Thomas
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