Hi Peter, Granting an LGPL license to rrdtool would make it very simple to integrate rrdtool with many non GPL tools. My intent with publishing rrdtool under the GPL was
a) Make sure that any modifications to rrdtool will be available under the same liberal license as rrdtool as they are published. b) Promote free Software. Since the GPL gives people who want to access rrdtool from closed-source applications some heavy thinking (it can be done using the cli and also the scripting apis and I would not even object to shared library access as long as the tool itself does not do any graphing and logging stuff itself.) I have no interest in preventing other free software from using rrdtool and if something like php has a license that gives people a headache over license incompatibility, then I see no gain in this hence I clarified the situation adding the FLOSS exception. I don't see it interfearing with the spirit of the GPL (as you can see from looking at the GPLv3 draft). As for the discussion, on the list that I missed and I am sorry for this (since most of the work on rrdtool seems to stay with me the 'developer-community' tends to slip my minde every now and then). As for the LGPLing rrdtool ... Intent a) would still be valid. Intent b) would be weakened, since LGPL is much easier on the 'consience' and I don't actualy think it is necessary to make it easy to use rrdtool in closed source software while I spend all that time on it giving it away for free. But feel free to make a case for LGPL ... The thought about the 'rrd' format is interesting, but I am not sure the current state is something we should promote all that much since it is platform dependent and quite rigid regarding extensibility. cheers tobi -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker @ ISG.EE, ETL F24.2, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager, Time Lord, Coder, Designer, Coach /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/oetiker +41(0)44-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/rrd-developers WebAdmin http://lists.ee.ethz.ch/lsg2.cgi
