Ludovico, thanks for your email: I didn't notice the problem until now, so thanks for notifying it.
If quickly means by the end of December, I can do something. Otherwise the quickest solution is to disable this code until the routines have been rewritten. What do you think? Regards Luca On Nov 18, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Ludovico Cavedon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > It has been reported [1] in Debian that ntop includes 4 files under > the Creative Commons Non Commercial license: countmin.[ch] and > prgn.[ch]. > > Unfortunately this license is not compatible with the Debian Free > Software Guidelines [2] because it imposes non-acceptable restrictions > (i.e. the code cannot be used for commercial purposes). > Similarly, and unrelated to Debian, that license is not compatible > with GPL under which ntop is distributed, because the GPL itself > forbids imposing additional restrictions on the software. > > I have written to the author of countmin and prng asking if it would > be possible to re-license the code under both CC-BY-NC and GPL. > However I have not got an answer yet. > > Unless we solve this issue quickly, ntop will be soon removed from Debian. > I have not found another suitable count-min skethes implementation. Do > you think it could be replaced with some other data structure without > impacting performance too much? > Otherwise, it looks like ntop is using a simple subset of the > functionality of countmin, so I can see if I have some time to > re-implement that subset based on the paper describing the data > structure. > > Thanks, > Ludovico > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/692732 > [2] http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines > _______________________________________________ > Ntop-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [email protected] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
