Thats My Man ;)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tobias Oetiker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:00 AM Subject: [rrd-users] gpl rrdtool burgers fries somix Folks, Regarding 'non gpl' stuff and mrtg / rrdtool ... the GPL gets interpreted in different ways regarding integration of GPL and non GPL software ... my take is this. If you use mrtg and rrdtool in a non GPL product, but state clearly that you are doing so and do not hide mrtg / rrdtool then this is fine with me, as long as you DO NOT go into the problem space of GRAPHING and LOGGING with extensions ... So if you extend RRDTOOL with new graph types and do not make your extension GPL, we do have a problem. I know there are all these discussions about linking, shared libraries and lanugage bindings and so on ... I am not realy interested in these discussions as they do not get us further ... What counts for me is the spirit and the actions ... To take Somix as an example, they are providing a valuable service to the comunity with their configuration archive and they are generous to me by every so often ordering some dvds ... I like them. On the other hand if a company takes rrdtool, removes my marker, changes the colors and the layout of the graphs a bit and then included it in their for pay product and sells the combo for a lot of money then I am not happy as I do not see them giving back the either the community or me ... About the fries and the burger, if the burger is free, but its the fries you need then you can either pay someone todo the fries for you or you can bake your own ... doing a 95 percentile analysis with rrdtool 1.0.x even, is so simple its realy not worth arguing about ... is this something people would be happy to have? A tool like this: rrdpercentile file.rrd input 300 2002 12 95 it would look at file.rrd in there it would take the data source input and make sure it is available in 300 seconds interval for the whole of december 2002 and then it would sort the measurements and tell you the number thet is bigger than 95% of the other numbers ... cheers tobi -- ______ __ _ /_ __/_ / / (_) Oetiker, ETZ J97, ETH, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland / // _ \/ _ \/ / System Manager Coach Time Lord Developer Designer /_/ \.__/_.__/_/ http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker +41(0)1-632-5286 -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/rrd-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
