What about writing the devs and asking them to change their license, explain all the free distro's that will have to drop them...
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 04:11:08PM +0000, Nicolás Reynolds (Parabola Issue Tracker) wrote: > > Nicolás Reynolds added the comment: > > Mtjm discovered syslog-ng documentation is unfree (cc-nc-nd), so I'd proppose > to > change to another one, since providing it without documentation turns it > useless. > > Current options on repositories are: rsyslogd and metalog. > > Rsyslogd seems too much, and metalog announces itself as tinier than > syslog-ng. > The problem is that: > > * Does it's own logrotate (but it doesn't gzip them) > * The /var/log tree changes (from everything.log to everything/current in the > default log) > * It runs as root so the files created are root:root instead of root:log > (users > on the log group aren't able to read log files) > > ---------- > nosy: +dev_list -mtjm > title: [syslog-ng] man pages are nonfree -> Migrate to a free syslogd Was: > [syslog-ng] man pages are nonfree > > ____________________________________________________ > Parabola's issue tracker <[email protected]> > <https://bugs.parabolagnulinux.org/bugs/issue292> > ____________________________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev -- Charles Roth Cultural Detective and Curious Antiquary General Editor of The Encyclomundi Wiki Email: [email protected] About Me: http://encyclomundi.org/wiki/User:Encyclom "Like so many Victorian gentlemen of leisure, he published pamphlets"
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