[Nagiosplug-devel] plug-in license

[William Leibzon]

Since no new plugins are being added to standard nagos-plugins distribution
(which is under GPL) you should release new plugin on your own put it on
exchange.nagios.org. You can use libraries available but you don't have to
and I think no matter if you do or not you can release your plugin under any
license including entirely commercial one.

As far as BSD vs GPL it makes a difference only when some commercial company
is going to integrate it into their own distribution with only binary being
there (i.e. if plugin is written in C and only compiled version is
released). If plugin is written in interpreted language (Perl) then even if
they include it in their own distribution, the code is available for anyone
and they can't put it under different license. Similarly they can include
GPL plugin in their own distribution too (Redhat is commercial distro but
obviously includes mostly GPL code) and because of what plugins really are,
I can't see where the above would ever make a difference so I think
releasing all plugins under GPL is fine even if you envision commercial use
and distribution.

Some of my own plugins are included in commercial (or semi-commercial since
they make most code available as open-source) distributions - Groundwork and
Zenoss. Nobody ever told me or asked for my permission but I don't see any
issue either.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:42 AM, shoks <lowbotskie at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:10 PM, William Leibzon <william at leibzon.org>wrote:
>
>> Release under any license you like if its not based on any other plugin
>> code.
>>
> It will be developed from scratch and will not use or invoke any plugin
> code. Will it not
> be infected if being called upon, that being the framework is under GPL?
>
>
>>
>> P.S. What license are you planning on using and why?
>>
> Similar to the BSD license. The goal is not to impose any restriction on
> the application
> and use of the plugin, for commercial, proprietary or any purpose.
>
> Thanks
>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:24 PM, shoks <lowbotskie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it accepted to release a plug-in under a non-GPL license? What is
>>> the license requirement of such?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> shoks
>>>
>>>
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