Re: legal aspects of packaging nagios-sap-ccms
Hi Paul
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 08:52:59PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Harald Jenny wrote:
>
> > I'm currently doing some private packaging of
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios-sap-ccms/files/ and was wondering
> > if it would be possbile to ship this package in Debian non-free - there
>
> I don't think that is possible since there is no license on the
> librfccm files, just a copyright notice.
Ok so I will check what license this lib has...
>
> Seems like this would be against the sourceforge.net terms of service too.
Well this package seems to be hosted there quite some time.
>
> > are some binary only libraries in the source package but this does not
> > seems to stop OpenSuSE from providing rpms.
>
> Either they don't care about the legal issues or they have a special
> license to distribute. I would suggest that you contact the maintainer
> of the OpenSuSE package to clarify that. Also contact upstream and or
> SAP about possible licenses for this bit of code (and recommend
> BSD/MIT/GPL).
Thanks for your help will do
>
> --
> bye,
> pabs
Bye
Harald
>
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