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

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Tobias Oetiker wrote:

> 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 ...

iiks too many errors ...

rrdcached interface seems a simple and clear interface/api to me.
If a license change for rrd_client.c helps more tools using it,
this is all the better in my eyes.


> 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    sole copyright holder which I believe is outdated.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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> > > http://verplant.org/
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