[Nagiosplug-devel] Plugin development

[Andreas Ericsson]

Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> 
>> On a side-note;
>> I've tried to contact the fping maintainer (current and all of the 
>> previous) as well as stanford's legal department regarding the fping 
>> source-code included in the check_icmp plugin I've written. After some 
>> 20 emails I haven't got any responses at all, so I think it's safe to 
>> include the check_icmp plugin in the main distribution now.
>>
>> It can be found at http://oss.op5.se, in the Nagios section. Latest 
>> version is check_icmp-0.8.1
> 
> 
> In your code, you say:
> 
> 
>  * COPYLEFT;
>  * This programs copyright status is currently undetermined. Much of
>  * the code in it comes from the fping2 program which used to be licensed
>  * under the Stanford General Software License (available at
>  * http://graphics.stanford.edu/software/license.html). It is presently
>  * unclear what license (if any) applies to the original code at the
>  * moment.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Can you remind me again what is unclear about the license status of the 
> code that you are working from? Why wouldn't we use:
> 
> /* fping website:  http://www.fping.com
>  *
>  * Current maintainers of fping:
>  *
>  * ZeroHype Technologies Inc. (http://www.zerohype.com)
>  * Suggestions and patches, please email noc at zerohype.com
>  *
>  * Original author:  Roland Schemers  <schemers at stanford.edu>
>  *
>  * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
>  * provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
>  * duplicated in all such forms and that any documentation,
>  * advertising materials, and other materials related to such
>  * distribution and use acknowledge that the software was developed
>  * by Stanford University.  The name of the University may not be used
>  * to endorse or promote products derived from this software without
>  * specific prior written permission.
>  * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
>  * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
>  * WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>  */
> 
> 
> from the current version of fping.c at at the fping website?
> 

I guess we could, but that wasn't the comment that was in the fping.c 
program (or COPYING) that I hacked into check_icmp. It had a blank line 
followed by "copying and this and that permitted so long as the above 
copyright notice is attached". I knew it was under the Stanford license 
earlier, but they seemed to have dropped it for some reason. Anyways. 
I'll update the check_icmp.c (and add a digital check_host mode as 
well), and everything should be set.

I won't have time for it until the weekend though so 0.9 should be out 
sunday afternoon or something.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer