On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 06:42:01PM -0500, Brian Credeur wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to follow-up on a discussion thread back in mid-September on > licensing of 3.0.1. From that dicussion, there appears to be code from > a number of different licenses (BSD, GPL, LGPL, and Apache) and some > question as to how to best integrate them--or re-write if confilicts exist. > > Added to that discussion is the information on the Ganglia project page > at freshmeat, which shows different licenses (GPL and BSD) for various > branches and versions. The most current branch is the 3.0.1 monitoring > core which shows GPL, however, most of the source references BSD. > > Does this mean that has been a concensus on how the 3.0.1 release is > licensed and if so that it is officially GPL? Also, what is the plan > for licensing of future releases?
No, that's the result of an incorrect default. I don't think there is a plan at this point. The GPL'd code in the linux support should take less than a days work to replace if someone wants to do that. > We have Ganglia running for some clients, to-date, and they are quite > happy with it. We'd like to setup Ganglia at some other clients' > environments, but would like to be clear on the licensing for > installation, customization, etc. I know they'll ask the question of me > and would like to have a good answer before-hand. :-) Unfortunatly, there doesn't seem to be a good answer at this point. :( -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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