Bug#724939: RFS: sflowtool/3.28-1 [ITP] -- Command line utility for decoding and analyzing sflow data
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist
Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "sflowtool"
Package name : sflowtool
Version : 3.28-1
Upstream Author : Neil McKee <neil.mckee@inmon.com>
URL : http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowTools.php
License : Inmon sFlow License
(http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowlicense.txt)
Section : non-free/net
It builds the following binary packages:
sflowtool - Command line utility for decoding and analyzing sflow data
To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/sflowtool
Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:
dget -x
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/non-free/s/sflowtool/sflowtool_3.28-1.dsc
More information about sflowtool can be obtained from its upstream
homepage: http://www.inmon.com/technology/sflowTools.php
Changes are shown below as in debian/changelog:
sflowtool (3.28-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release. (Closes: #724738)
* sflowtool.c: Silence compiler warnings by coercing args for several
printfs
* sflowtool.c: Correct number of args in a printf
(zero-indexed/one-indexed confusion)
-- Rowan Thorpe <rowan@rowanthorpe.com> Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:55:52 +0300
NB: Communication with the upstream author has been established, and he
has already requested I forward my non-debian specific patches to him,
and expressed keen interest in another related InMon application being
packaged (host-sflow). The license clearly allows re-distribution so
this can at least be a candidate for "non-free", but regarding the
possibility of including it in "main" I mentioned it isn't yet clear
whether the InMon Sflow License is DFSG compatible, and he queried if
the APL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Public_License - as used
for host-sflow) would be considered compatible. I don't yet know if
this indicates a possibility or willingness to permit that license's
use for sflowtool or not, though. Important information can be gleaned
from this openvswitch thread
http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2010-November/thread.html#4392 but
in the end the "discussion with debian-legal" to clarify the official
DFSG-compatibility status of both licenses seemed not to eventuate...
Regards,
Rowan Thorpe
--
mailto:rowan@rowanthorpe.com
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