[syslog-ng] patterndb license?

[Martin Holste]

I agree.  I plan on contributing patterns, and it doesn't bother me at
all if they are used commercially as long as attribution is made and
the license stays the same.

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Daniel Maher <dma+syslogng at witbe.net> wrote:
> On 10/01/2010 03:21 PM, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering what kind of license should be applied to patterndb
>> patterns. GPL doesn't really apply as it is not software.
>>
>> I was thinking about Creating Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license,
>> which:
>>
>>    * allows redistributions of the work with proper attribution
>>    * allows changes as long as the changes are available under the same
>> license
>>    * allows commercial usage (e.g. free even for commercial entities)
>>
>> Adding the "nc" e.g. non-commercial flag was considered and then
>> dropped. We feel that most people trying to use patterndb would
>> definitely use it in a commercial setting and we wouldn't like to limit
>> our users to academia a private use.
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> For those interested :
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
> Personally i'm in favour of this license for patterndb patterns, and i'd
> have to agree that the "nc" component is absolutely out of the question.
>
>
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> Daniel Maher <dma PLUS syslogng AT witbe DOT net>
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