[rrd-developers] Relicensing of src/rrd_client.[ch]

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi All,

Today kevin brintnall wrote:

> I favor:
>
> 2-clause BSD
> MIT
>
> I'd be interested to hear Tobi's view on the subject.

Having other apps accessing rrdtool functionality through some kind
of defined API is fine with me ... I have not chosen the LGPL the
the whole project because I think it tends to blur the lines too
much ... but rrdcached interface is very clear to me and it the
rrd_client.c is under a more liberal license, in order for others
to access this rrd interface this is fine with me ...

Florian, can you share the motivation behind the licensing change ?

cheers
tobi


> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Florian Forster <rrdtool at nospam.verplant.org
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Kevin and Sebastian,
> >
> > I would like to open up the rrdcached client interface so it can be used
> > from non-GPL applications. For that I would like to re-license the two
> > files
> >
> >  src/rrd_client.h and
> >  src/rrd_client.c
> >
> > to a more permissible license. I was thinking about using the MIT
> > license or the LGPL "2.1 or later".
> >
> > As far as I see, you two are the only other copyright holders on those
> > files [0]. Would a license change be okay for you? If so, which license
> > do you prefer?
> >
> > Regards,
> > ?octo
> >
> > [0] It is kind of hard to tell because SVN doesn't differentiate between
> >    author and committer. The mail goes to the mailing list as well, so
> >    if I missed a contribution please speak up! The files list me as the
> >    sole copyright holder which I believe is outdated.
> > --
> > Florian octo Forster
> > Hacker in training
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