2008/2/20, Rainer Gerhards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Feedback, please...
Tbh, I have mixed feelings about that. First of all, I have to say, that I'm not a lawyer, do don't take my words for granted. But as the original source code is licensed under the GPL (at least parts of it like klogd and pidfile.c), and is copyright of the original authors, you can't just relicense it. You'd have to ask the original authors for permission. Second, I don't think that simply providing a wiki page, stating that for all contributions the copyright is automatically transferred to adiscon is legally effective. You definitely have to ask a lawyer for clarification here. For dual-licensed projects I know, like e.g. Qt, I know that they don't/can't accept contributions (afaik even simple bug fixes) without such a waiver. That's a major pain. As a result (at least from my experience), many people avoid to contribute to such dual-licensed projects. If you take Qt or MySQL again, you'll see that they are almost 100% developed by the company itself. The flow of external contributions is very little. If you remember the latest discussion on the debian-devel mailing list, you will remember that the current license of rsyslog was mentioned as a definite advantage over syslog-ng. Imho the acceptance and the participation in the community will be higher if rsyslog stayed a gpl only project. Again, this is only my personal opinion and I very much understand your urge to generate revenue for your company. An idea, which I would prefer over dual-licensing the complete rsyslog project, is to provide enterprise level plugins under a commercial or dual-license only and generate revenue from those plugins. Evolution (mail and pim application) is such an example, where the project itself is GPL, but the exchange connector (realised via plugins) is commercial. HTH, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog
