On 9/13/05, Stu Teasdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 05:49:33PM -0400, michael chang wrote: > > Ganglia 2.x.x something is in Debian -- maybe collaborate with people > > there and see how many users use it (or don't use it). > > Hi there, I'm the ganglia maintainer in debian. I have a 3.0.1 package > ready to go, but some fairly major licence issues with ganglia 3 mean > that it'll never get past the ftpmasters and into the archive atm. As it > stands there's a mix of GPL, LGPL, Artistic and the main BSD licenced > code in there and many of these are simply not cross compatible.
Ah, the classic licence-interoperability issues; this would be the problems arising from Debian now being a pure OS? (I love Debian as a whole, but this seems to be one of those it-takes-forever-to-resolve-it-because-resolution-requires-talking problems that happens to everyone.) IANAL, but it seems that from a legal standpoint, we *do* have to resolve this -- A) we have to choose a licences for Ganglia as a whole, and then B) we have to remove code incompatable with this licence and/or get it relicenced under Ganglia's new licence; and if the code is removed, it must be later replaced under code compatable with the licence (or just simply "miss" the functionality :( ). I don't suppose we'd know what most of the existing code is licenced under as a whole, would we? (Ideally, that would seem to be the best choice as a licence that we use...) -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.
