On Friday 11 July 2008 07:02:04 am Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:37:23AM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > > Here's the release plan for the upcoming 3.1 release. > > do you mean 3.1.0? > > > I believe all the important, show-stopping backport proposals in the > > STATUS file for 3.1 branch have already been processed and voted on. > > actually there is 1 showstopper reported there which has not yet a > resolution, and that is the probable licensing issue between the BSD > ganglia-webfrontend and the GPL templatePower class. > > sadly, I hadn't heard back from Ron (the author of templatePower) on the > alternatives we might be able to go with and so can't comment in that. > > but checking again all legalese that seems to be tied into the files in > the web frontend, it might seem we could be OK after all as the terms > of the BSD license there (which actually look more like a MIT license > to me) seem compatible with the terms of GPLv2. > > but of course IANAL and we should probably seek advice from one (maybe > debian legal or fedora legal could help there).
Tom Callaway is Fedora's first line of defense when it comes to licensing questions, and either he knows the answer from looking into tons of package licensing issues already, or knows who to talk to. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Ganglia-developers mailing list Ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ganglia-developers
