On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:04:34AM -0500, Luis Bustamante wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2002-04-30 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : nagios > Version : 1.0a7 > * URL : http://www.nagios.org > * License : GPL > Author : Ethan Galstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description : Network monitoring and management system > > Nagios is a replacement for Netsaint which is no longer under > development.
This is true -- kind of. Nagios and netsaint are, in fact, the same package. From the netsaint.org website: " NetSaint is not affiliated with World Wide Digital Security, Inc. (WWDSI); Richard S. Carson and Associates, Inc; and the marks WEB SAINT, SAINT, SAINTWRITER, SAINTEXPRESS, and SAINTBASIC owned by Richard S. Carson and Associates, Inc. " There were legal threats made concerning the name. Ethan decied to change names and registered a trademark for the new name (nagios) to prevent that kind of harassment in the future. This brings two questions to mind: 1) Does the trademark represent any legal problems to Debian? (I think not, as linux us also trademarked, but it may entail some additional step of receiving permission to redistribute.) 2) Since it is, in fact, the same package as netsaint with only the name changed, has the current netsaint packager Turbo Fredriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> been contacted? Jim Penny [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm preparing beta packages and will be avaliable at > http://www.fluidsignal.com/~luferbu/debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
