[TriLUG] quick, name an open source monitoring solution

Magnus magnus at trilug.org
Thu Feb 23 23:46:09 EST 2012


If you said "Nagios", keep reading. I know the web site says that it is open source, and everybody seems to think that it is open source, but have you actually *read* the license?

http://assets.nagios.com/licenses/nagios_open_software_license.txt

Make sure you don't miss Section III. That's the fun part.

> iii. The Software may not be Forked.  "Forking" and "to Fork" means to create or distribute a product or a derivative work of the object or source code of the Software under a new or different brand. 


-M


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