Today Florian Forster wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:41:15PM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > > Florian, can you share the motivation behind the licensing change ? > > I was asked today if it was possible to add support for sending data to > rrdcached to a proprietary application. My first thought was "yes, of > course" but then reality caught up with me and I realized that I wasn't > in the cotton-candy-free-software-world.. ;) > > The FSF interprets the GPL so that dynamically linking with a library is > already considered a "derived work", so a GPL'ed library can essentially > only be used by a project using a GPL-compatible license itself. > > The rrd_client.[ch] interface is basically a thin abstraction layer over > the network protocol. Since new implementations of a network protocol > often introduce little incompatibilities or lack some features, I think > it's best to let non-GPL software use those abstraction layers, too.
fine with me :-) cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland http://it.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900 _______________________________________________ rrd-developers mailing list rrd-developers@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/rrd-developers