[syslog-ng] Licensing of 3.0.2 OSE ?

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 14:00 +0000, Fegan, Joe wrote:
> Hi all - A licensing question about syslog-ng was sent to me privately recently and I thought it would be best to forward it to this list for comments.
> 
> 
> > We have been using syslog-ng-1.6.2 in our product for quite a few years now.
> > We received a case recently on syslog-ng which prompted us to get the newer
> > version of syslog-ng. We took the syslog-ng_3.0.2 open source edition and
> > replaced the older one with this.
> >
> > We see that the licensing has changed from GPL to BalaBit Proprietary License
> > since syslog-ng version 3.0.1. The license remains GPL till syslog-ng version
> > 2.1.4.
> > 
> > My question here is, can we build the newer open source syslog-ng which has
> > the Balabit propriety license and distribute it to our customers as part of
> > our product?
> 
> 
> I replied that the COPYING file in the 3.0.2 tarball says GPL, so I don't understand the question. The person's reply was:
> 

this spec file was since gone and has ever only been used by our
internal build system.

So the OSE is under the GPL as you can see on all .c/.h files

> 
> > Joe,
> > 
> > I missed out on mentioning that part to you.
> > The COPYING is GPL. But in the spec file we see the following.
> > 


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Bazsi