just a couple comments, most things in the original mail were responded to
elsewhere in the thread.
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
HI,
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:42 AM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
Rsyslog is already moving to the ASL license, so that is no difference.
Agreed. A more open license is a good thing. But it's somewhat separate
from a community. I say "somewhat" because you can have more
collaborative, say "multi-owner" projects with GPL, too. Though GPL will
also turn off some companies, I believe.
and ASL will turn off others, there is no 'perfect' license that will generate
no problems.,
there is already a community that is providing some patches (just not
enough)
Precisely. Just not enough. It's a visibility issue.
Have you heard of Voldemort? Not the character, but Kafka's cousin from
LinkedIn? Easy to google. It's an *awesome* project. Super high quality.
Fast. Stable. etc. etc. And in a similar situation as Rsyslog -
open-source - yes, contributors welcome - yes, community - not really,
growth - not really, fallen behind compared to other similar but more open
projects - oh yes. Why? Because despite it being open-source it is really
LinkedIn guys that are its only real owners, only real developers.
Everyone else doesn't want to put a lot of effort in it because of that.
On the other hand, Cassandra and HBase, which are similar to Voldemort,
have flourished (both at Apache).
well, since I got involved with rsyslog back aroudn 2006 it has become the
default syslog daemon on just about every distro, so it's hard to say that
rsyslog is falling behind anything.
The biggest problems are that the distros are shipping old versions of rsyslog,
and that systemd developers have pushed Fedora to remove every syslog daemon
from the default install moving to Apache would not affect either of these
problems.
David Lang
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