On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:22:31AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 11 July 2008 07:02:04 am Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> >
> > 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.
right, thanks Jarod and welcome Tom.
so to summarize the relevant facts are :
* the Ganglia Web Frontend (which has been with us since 3.0) has been always
under a BSD license (not sure which one really because our COPYING file has
no conditions that I can count and so looks more like a MIT/X11 license to
my untrained eye), but whichever it is, does not have the advertising clause.
http://ganglia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ganglia/trunk/monitor-core/web/COPYING?view=markup
* the frontend is built using a template class called TemplatePower that is
itself licensed under the GPLv2 or later and that has been with the frontend
since the first release as well.
http://ganglia.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ganglia/trunk/monitor-core/web/class.TemplatePower.inc.php?revision=459&view=markup
* the frontend is build in PHP and so all source code is of course available
and distributed with it, and so all distribution requirements for both
licenses are met.
* the BSD license we are using doesn't add any restrictions (like the
advertising clause that usually comes from the original BSD license)
that are not already part of the GPL license and therefore would seem
(at least to my untrained eye) that they are indeed compatible and fine
for distribution together :
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
Carlo
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