If the licensign text for rsyslog clearly states that the authors of
rsyslog do not consider plugins to be defivitive works of rsyslog, that
basically makes it so that even if someone tries to claim that the GPL did
apply to the plugin, anyone could point to that statement and any judge
would dismiss the case (I think the legal term is enstopple, basically you
can't give people permission to do something and then sue them for doing
it)
some people call this an 'exception', but usually the people granting the
'exception' consider it common sense.
with linux you have the 'userspace exception' that says that software
running in userspace and using the standard system calls is not considered
a derived work of the linux kernel. Most people consider this an obvious
truth that doesn't really matter, but the fact that it has been clearly
stated for a long time means that nobody can now claim otherwise.
I belive that you have had a similar statement in place about the plugins
for a long time, so it's not that it takes creative thinking to make
plugins not be required to be GPL licensed, but it takes creative thinking
to justify ignoring that statement and claiming that they are required to
be under the GPL.
David Lang
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Rainer Gerhards wrote:
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:38:40 +0100
From: Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>
Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [rsyslog] update on rsyslog licensing and funding
Hi all,
I created some confusion if the rsyslog project stays under GPLv3 with
yesterday's post. In fact, it does! I wrote a new posting today in the hope
to clarify some things:
http://blog.gerhards.net/2012/01/rsyslog-will-remain-gplv3-licensed.html
Rainer
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [rsyslog] update on rsyslog licensing and funding
Hi all,
we had a lengthy discussion last November on rsyslog funding and
licensing.
At that time, I promised to keep you updated. I have blogged about the
latest
state:
http://blog.gerhards.net/2012/01/rsyslog-licensing-update.html
Feedback is appreciated.
Rainer
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