[Nagiosplug-devel] [Nagios-users] Licensing of Official and 3rd Party Plugins

[Eric F Crist]

You can license your plugin however you choose.  The plugins I write  
are BSD, for instance.

On Jan 2, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Hari Sekhon wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I was wondering if anyone had any views on the licensing of plugins,
> I have looked at GPL version 3 and it looks good, really just an  
> update
> to GPL version 2.
>
> So the question is, why not license plugins as GPL version 3 now?
> I am really asking this in 2 respects:
>
> 1. for the Official Plugins
> 2. for custom plugins released to Nagios Exchange.
>
> Basically it comes down to GPLv2 vs GPLv3.
>
> Has anyone considered upgrading to the official Nagios code base to  
> the
> newer GPL?
>
> Should I license plugins I write as GPLv3 now instead of GPLv2? Are
> there any detractions in doing this?
>
>
> -h
>
> -- 
> Hari Sekhon
>
>
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