Holger Weiss wrote: > * Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-01-10 06:16]: >> On 10/01/08 04:37 AM, Hari Sekhon wrote: >>> Holger Weiss wrote: >>>> Personally, I'm somewhat annoyed by the various incompatible Open Source >>>> licenses floating around, as it they can make re-using code impossible >>>> in some cases. As the GPLv3 is yet another license which is >>>> incompatible to everything else, I'm not really a fan of it. I would >>>> prefer "GPLv2 or higher" licenses over "GPLv3-only", if possible. >> Incompatibilities among GPL license are only brought by "GPLvX-only" >> type of licenses. Programs and libraries using "GPLvX or higher" will >> always avoid compatibility problems among GPL licenses. > > Which is why I prefer the latter over the former, but not all people do > it this way. See the Linux kernel's license, for example. >
It isn't really an issue for the kernel though, as it's never loaded as a library. >> GPL is meant to be incompatible with other licenses. If you're worried >> about that you should use the BSD license > > Yes, I personally do :-) > BSD license has other issues. If there had ever been a perfect one, the need for a billion different ones wouldn't be needed. >> but keep in mind that OSS wouldn't be nearly as strong as it is with >> BSD. Many companies contributing to OSS would just rip the code if it >> was under the BSD license. > > That's the idea of the GPL and in some cases it definitely worked, but I > doubt this effect is really that strong in practice. My guess would be > that most companies which don't want to (or cannot) contribute their > code to OSS won't be forced by the GPL to do so, they simply won't use > GPL code. > Or they'll use GPL code and have in-house modifications that are never made public, which is exactly what they would have done had it been BSD- or MIT-licensed instead. >>> Thanks for the response, I think your points are valid. I'll continue to >>> use a GPL version 2 or higher license in order to try to maintain >>> compatibility and then I'll go GPLv3 when more people get in to it. >> That will likely change for the next release if we update Gnulib to the >> latest version, as they bumped their license to GPL v3. > > I thought so, too, but I checked before my other posting and most of > Gnulib is actually LGPL'd, despite the headers in the C files: > > | Many modules are provided dual-license, either GPL or LGPL at your > | option. The headers of files in the lib directory (e.g., lib/error.c) > | state GPL for convenience, since the bulk of current gnulib users are > | GPL'd programs. But the files in the modules directory (e.g., > | modules/error) state the true license of each file, and when you use > | 'gnulib-tool --lgpl --import <modules>', gnulib-tool either rewrites > | the files to have an LGPL header as part of copying them from gnulib > | to your project directory, or fails because the modules you requested > | were not licensed under LGPL. > > [ http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=COPYING ] > > AFAICS, we're currently not using any of the GPL-only Gnulib files. > > Anyway, if you (or others) would like to upgrade to GPLv3, I'm perfectly > fine with that. I just stated my personal preference, but the license > question isn't important to me. > For the plugins it won't matter in the slightest which version is used, as it isn't a library and so other programs will never have to think about it. That will only become an issue if someone tries to use the API functions in a GPLv2-only program. otoh, I fail to see that switching to GPLv3 buys the plugins-project anything, so *shrug* -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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
