Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Ramon - A RMON2 Network Monitoring Agent - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

address@hidden writes:

Hi Ricardo Nabiger,

I checked the CURL project page and the License Notices it's
GPL-Compatible but, they put a string "All rights reserved", and this
make it GPL-Incompatible. You can contact to the authors and asking if
they can remove this little string from the license, because this make
it non-free software since the have to give rights to the users to be
free software this mean that they cannot reserver all rights. The
other options it is drop this package from the dependencies list, can
you tell us what you will do? 

Related to the package, there's a directory called 'net-snmp', the
files here are licensed as part of your  project but you name a
dependence called 'Net-SNMP', are these files the created as an
interface to work with the Net-SNMP dependence? if this is the case,
you should change the name to this directory to avoid future confusions.


You have two problems related to the licensing process, the first was
pointed above, the second it's that you didn't replace the string 'GNU
program' in all your License Notices, consider to fix this :)

If you are willing to make the changes mentioned above, please provide
us with an URL to an updated tarball of your project.  Upon review, we
will reconsider your project for inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <address@hidden> described the package as
> follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Ramon - A RMON2 Network Monitoring Agent
> System name: ramon
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> The project is the first known implementation of a free and open source
> RMON2 network monitoring agent.
> As the name suggests, it is a software agent to monitor network traffic,
> and gather statistics regarding OSI layers 3 to 7, as proposed by the IETF
> standard RFC-2021.
> For network admins and/or researches, perhaps it's the only mean to get
> in touch with this kind of network monitoring agent, as there are many
> commercial implementations (even hardware based).  As it's software based
> and free, one only needs a cheap PC station (it runs on expensive PCs too,
> and better) connected to an ethernet network.
> It is not intended to spy or steal network ata, only to traffic
> characterization as proposed by the IETF RFC.
> This is yet on development stage, but is very functional.
> The agent also has an extended mode of operation, where it analyses
> protocol iterations which are programmed by a manager using the PTSL
> language.  This language was proposed by my teacher and research leader on
> his PhD thesis, and is intended to be of free use.
>
> The monitoring agent partially depends on libcurl, which is not a
> strict-GPL library.  As I am the project leader, I can work on its removal
> if it violates the GPL licence in any way.
>
> RFC-2021: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2021.txt
> PTSL: http://mutuca.metropoa.tche.br/Publications/tese_Luciano.ps.gz
> RMON2 latest CVS snapshot (source code): 
> http://mutuca.metropoa.tche.br/~rnsanchez/rmon2_00027.tar.gz
>
>
> Other Software Required:
> * GNU Make
> * GNU gcc
> * GNU Flex
> * Yacc
> * libpcap
> * posix threads
> * Net-SNMP, only if one wants to access data via SNMP
> * CURL, only if running the extended mode
>   * CURL is available at: http://curl.haxx.se/
> * GNU Pth as optional threads library
> * Doxygen, if one wants to generate the source documentation
>
> Other Comments:
> This is a re-register.
> I've managed to fix all pendencies pointed by Jonathan Gonzalez:
>
> * Move from the 'small program' to 'program' license notice model
> * Include license on top of files where it was missing
> * Removed year ranges
> * Fixed copyrights year to reflect the current year of release
>
> Please send any comments to both emails of mine: 
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>
> On the first registration I didn't receive any messages, only the last
> one when my project was removed from the pending queue.


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