No, since the Nipper 0.11.x release series Nipper has included commercial use clauses in its license.
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 12:32:46 dpcyb...@gmail.com wrote: > Um...so what I think I am hearing is that all versions less than 1.0, > including 0.12.6 are not commercial, right? > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fizz <f...@titania.co.uk> > > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:16:31 > To: <full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk> > Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Nipper licensing > > > It has cost me a *LOT* of money to develop Nipper. Network devices are very > expensive as I am sure everyone knows. It also took me a *LOT* of time to > develop Nipper. It is also true that a lot of companies use Nipper to to > make money, such as auditing companies and internal IT departments. > > During that time only 1 person has ever seen the need to donate to the > project, even though it makes money for a *LOT* of businesses. > > Nipper has had commercial licensing exclusions for a little while now. > Version 1 is now released as a full commercial version. This means that > companies who benefit from using Nipper will now have to pay a licence fee. > This fee will enable the purchase of more expensive network devices and > further improve Nipper. > > NOTE: Home users will be able to continue to use Nipper for free. > > Nipper is a complex program that supports almost 30 devices in its present > release. Nipper 1 has almost twice the number of code lines from the > previous version and over triple that of the one before. It is not a simple > grep of a configuration file and it audits a huge number of different > settings and protocols. > > Ian Ventura-Whiting > > On Wednesday 02 September 2009 10:48:42 Eric Sesterhenn wrote: > > * BMF (badmotherfs...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alan Buxey <a.l.m.bu...@lboro.ac.uk> > > wrote: > > > > ouch. a couple of years ago we had some home-brew code doing the job. > > > > Nipper > > > > came along...was free..and did everything we did + a little more. > > > > > > > > but now it looks like we'll be picking up our old Perl code and > > > > fixing it up > > > > to do everything that Nipper does - and a little more. > > > > > > Was Nipper not available as source and licensed so it could be forked > > > in an event such as this? If not, consider it an object lesson in free > > > as in beer vs free as in speech. > > > > LICENSE file for nipper-cli 0.12.0 and libnipper 0.12.6 states: > > > > THIS IS IMPORTANT: > > > > libNipper and all other Nipper products are licensed under the GPL > > version 3 with the following exceptions. > > > > 1. The code cannot be used as part of a commercial product. A commercial > > license can be arranged for the integration of Nipper with a > > commercial product. Contact f...@titania.co.uk for commercial licensing > > information. > > > > 2. Any code that integrates Nipper MUST display the following copyright > > information with the programs own copyright information: > > > > Nipper Copyright (C) 2006 - 2008 by Ian Ventura-Whiting > > > > In order to maintain the latest copyright information for each > > libNipper release, this information can be extracted using the API. > > > > > > Nipper is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY > > WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS > > FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License v3 (below) > > for more details. > > > > Regards, Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/