Le 04/04/2017 à 22:18, Arthur Havlicek a écrit :
Hello collectd community
It seems my message from outside the mailing list didn't go through,
so I suscribed and will now repeat a question I had about collectd
plugins licencing.
I intend to build a business around this amazing tool, mostly selling
a collectd integration + plugins. AFAIK plugins in collectd are
compiled with the daemon making it a single binary, as such it can be
considered derivative work under a GPL licence.
I wanted to know whether a non-free licencing over a collectd plugin
was considered respectful of collectd licence in itself. I expect this
to be the original wish of collectd to enable as much contributor as
possible and allow they licence their work the way they want, but I
found no other example yet or documentation that this is even possible
to release a modified collectd package containing non-free plugins
which is restricted.
As I'm not a lawyer, I query explicit allowance from collectd authors
and strongly hope it is possible to distribute a plugin with a
non-free plugin as this would allow me to deploy efficient
applications without complex pipelining. Of course, non-free licencing
would only limit to the plugin and would still make me liable of
giving source code of collectd parts which are covered by free licence.
Thank you for your help.
Typo here
strongly hope it is possible to distribute a *modified collectd version
*with a non-free plugin
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