Comments on: “New wave” network management licences http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/new-wave-network-management-licences/ Your daily IT cuppa Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4317 Jack Hughes Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:49:53 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4317 Wow, there sure are a lot of components in there Peter! Wow, there sure are a lot of components in there Peter!

]]> By: Peter Mui http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4316 Peter Mui Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:41:43 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4316 Jack, GroundWork unifies community-vetted and tested Open Source IT monitoring tools into a single comprehensive solution, so there are lots of open-source licenses we operate under. They're listed here: http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/pro-ipingredients.html Sometimes we wish there were a simpler way but it was the only way to put the best tools into a comprehensive solution, regardless of the license. Cheers, -Peter Peter Mui, Open Source Community Advocate GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc. 139 Townsend Street, Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107-1946 +1 415 992 4573 (direct) +1 415 947 0684 (fax) pmui@groundworkopensource.com Jack,

GroundWork unifies community-vetted and tested Open Source IT monitoring tools into a single comprehensive solution, so there are lots of open-source licenses we operate under. They’re listed here:

http://www.groundworkopensource.com/products/pro-ipingredients.html

Sometimes we wish there were a simpler way but it was the only way to put the best tools into a comprehensive solution, regardless of the license.

Cheers, -Peter

Peter Mui, Open Source Community Advocate
GROUNDWORK Open Source, Inc.
139 Townsend Street, Suite 100
San Francisco, CA 94107-1946
+1 415 992 4573 (direct)
+1 415 947 0684 (fax)
pmui@groundworkopensource.com

]]> By: Jack http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4314 Jack Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:10:40 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4314 Good stuff, it is good to see you fully doing the open in open source :) Good stuff, it is good to see you fully doing the open in open source :)

]]> By: mrhinkle http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4313 mrhinkle Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:59:16 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/2007/06/25/new-wave-network-management-licences/#comment-4313 Jack, I thought you might like to see our full list of ingredients, all licensed under the GPL or compatible license: http://www.zenoss.com/community/code/open-source That's not to say that some day there won't be differently licensed commercial add-ons but the idea is that anyone should be able to use a fully functional (e.g. non-crippled) free version of Zenoss Core. We actually have a full-time lawyer on our staff who spends the majority of her time trying to make sure everything we use and put into the product adheres to GPL. Jack,

I thought you might like to see our full list of ingredients, all licensed under the GPL or compatible license:

http://www.zenoss.com/community/code/open-source

That’s not to say that some day there won’t be differently licensed commercial add-ons but the idea is that anyone should be able to use a fully functional (e.g. non-crippled) free version of Zenoss Core. We actually have a full-time lawyer on our staff who spends the majority of her time trying to make sure everything we use and put into the product adheres to GPL.

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