You can license your plugin however you choose. The plugins I write are BSD, for instance.
On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Hari Sekhon wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone had any views on the licensing of plugins, > I have looked at GPL version 3 and it looks good, really just an > update > to GPL version 2. > > So the question is, why not license plugins as GPL version 3 now? > I am really asking this in 2 respects: > > 1. for the Official Plugins > 2. for custom plugins released to Nagios Exchange. > > Basically it comes down to GPLv2 vs GPLv3. > > Has anyone considered upgrading to the official Nagios code base to > the > newer GPL? > > Should I license plugins I write as GPLv3 now instead of GPLv2? Are > there any detractions in doing this? > > > -h > > -- > Hari Sekhon > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ----- Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null