Re: [Nagios-devel] license status of contributed icons?
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:24 pm
Cook, Garry wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>>hi all,
>>
>>i think i may have posted a question about this long in the past,
>>but in any case, i'll ask again...
>>
>>what's the license terms of the contributed nagios icons? i would
>>like to assume that they are under the same terms as nagios itself,
>>but i have learned that assuming things about software licenses and
>>copyrights can sometimes get you in trouble
>>
>>
>> sean
>
>
> 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.
>
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.
This assumes there's money involved ofcourse, so I don't think the
Debian project is in any real danger.
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?
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
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> [email protected] wrote:
>
>>hi all,
>>
>>i think i may have posted a question about this long in the past,
>>but in any case, i'll ask again...
>>
>>what's the license terms of the contributed nagios icons? i would
>>like to assume that they are under the same terms as nagios itself,
>>but i have learned that assuming things about software licenses and
>>copyrights can sometimes get you in trouble
>>
>>
>> sean
>
>
> 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.
>
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.
This assumes there's money involved ofcourse, so I don't think the
Debian project is in any real danger.
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?
--
Andreas Ericsson [email protected]
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Lead Developer
This post was automatically imported from historical nagios-devel mailing list archives
Original poster: [email protected]