[Nagiosplug-devel] [OT] Nagios plugins in use with UP.Time possibly?
Ton Voon
tonvoon at mac.com
Wed Mar 10 15:45:03 CET 2004
On 10 Mar, 2004, at 12:16, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:24:55 -0000
> "AJ McKee" <aj.mckee at nmtbmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> To cut to the chase there is a directory called libexec in
>> /opt/SPYNuptm/ and its contents are similar if not identical to that
>> of nagios.
>>
>> So basically I was wondering what was everyone's thoughts etc on this?
>
> We're not happy about it, and will take it up with them
>
Sorry, I need to get this off my chest.
I'm really pissed off about this. I've downloaded an evaluation copy of
the up.time software from Uptime Software and taken a look at it. It
includes Apache, PHP and Mysql. The first two have their own licences
which basically say you can redistribute source or binary but you must
include their licence, which Uptime have failed to do. Mysql is
distributed under the GPL which Uptime are also violating.
But the real story is with the Nagios parts. They have taken the Nagios
product, compiled it and distributed the nagios executable under the
name of servmon. I know that it is really Nagios because the executable
contains various lines that are very Nagios specific such as
ENABLE_PASSIVE_SVC_CHECKS. The plugins have had all the copyrights
removed. The agent software has been renamed to uptmagnt, but contains
many lines with the string "netsaint" in it. It even says to "Send
email to netsaint-users at lists.sourceforge.net if you have questions"!
This is a shame. They have some very interesting reporting graphs and
performance information (I wonder how they do that?), but the lack of
acknowledgement to the work of everyone involved with Nagios (as well
as the other open source software) is very demeaning. At least they
didn't rename Apache and Mysql!
I have written an email to FSF for advice on next steps. The copyright
holders (the Nagios plugins team and Ethan Galstad) are the only ones
empowered to act against violations, but I, for one, intend to get
Uptime Software to comply to the GPL.
Ton
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