Babelfishing the 1st paragraph: The service d?analyse of traffic suggested by Claridion provides an impressive quantity of information on the traffic of your network. The process consists in collecting all the traffic network right before your router of exit on Internet. You can thus practically observe all the characteristics of the traffic (entering and outgoing) for each element of the network using this segment. The visualization of information is done by l?interm�diaire d?une interface Web.
Their home page appears to be: http://www.claridion.com/html/index.html The home page lists two contact points - [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am copying them on this message to ask for comments. Since they don't appear to be subscribers to the ntop lists, I'll copy any response back to the list. It could be that they are just recommending ntop to people. Certainly looking at their home page they seem to have a lot of tools and no ntop screen shots that I can see... nor any mention of a network monitoring service - they focus on MS Exchange. I'm even willing to be they wrote a lot of code - there are 30 or 40 programming-type questions and answers from "Sal" that a Google Groups search finds. Back to your question... (I'll note that I'm not a Lawyer, but my understanding of the GPL is that) It is certainly legal within the GPL to use GPLed software to provide a service. It's even legal to resell the software at any price you can get for it, as long as you pass on the GPLed rights. (Most people get pretty pissed off paying for something they can get for free, but it is legal.) What they can't do is to remove the copyright notice (i.e. pass it off as their own work) nor can they remove the rights granted under the GPL. They also must make available the source code (e.g. a pointer to ntop.org or a download from their own site), and any derivative works are still subject to the GPL and must be made available. As a matter of ethics, it would be appropriate to credit ntop and perhaps to inform Luca. It might even be beneficial for them to invest some resources or sponsorship - witness what IBM is doing with Linux. It might be really nice to offer us that nice copyrighted write-up they sent you (perhaps translated into English) as an ntop promotional piece. But none of these are required. -----Burton -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Patrick Ouellet Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 8:35 AM To: ntop Mailing List Subject: [Ntop] Possible GPL infrigment!! Hi we received a proposition from a compagny the other day asking us if we would like to have a demo of their product. Strangely the screenshot look just like ntop. Here is the document they sent us... If someone wants another file format, just tell me I'll convert it. I can convert it to Star Office or Open Office. Its french tho.. but the image should be enough. Can someone tell me if this is illegal or something? _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
