[Nagiosplug-devel] [OT] Nagios plugins in use with UP.Time possibly?

[Ton Voon]

On 10 Mar, 2004, at 12:16, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:24:55 -0000
> "AJ McKee" <aj.mckee at nmtbmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> To cut to the chase there is a directory called libexec in
>> /opt/SPYNuptm/ and its contents are similar if not identical to that
>> of nagios.
>>
>> So basically I was wondering what was everyone's thoughts etc on this?
>
> We're not happy about it, and will take it up with them
>

Sorry, I need to get this off my chest.

I'm really pissed off about this. I've downloaded an evaluation copy of 
the up.time software from Uptime Software and taken a look at it. It 
includes Apache, PHP and Mysql. The first two have their own licences 
which basically say you can redistribute source or binary but you must 
include their licence, which Uptime have failed to do. Mysql is 
distributed under the GPL which Uptime are also violating.

But the real story is with the Nagios parts. They have taken the Nagios 
product, compiled it and distributed the nagios executable under the 
name of servmon. I know that it is really Nagios because the executable 
contains various lines that are very Nagios specific such as 
ENABLE_PASSIVE_SVC_CHECKS. The plugins have had all the copyrights 
removed. The agent software has been renamed to uptmagnt, but contains 
many lines with the string "netsaint" in it. It even says to "Send 
email to netsaint-users at lists.sourceforge.net if you have questions"!

This is a shame. They have some very interesting reporting graphs and 
performance information (I wonder how they do that?), but the lack of 
acknowledgement to the work of everyone involved with Nagios (as well 
as the other open source software) is very demeaning. At least they 
didn't rename Apache and Mysql!

I have written an email to FSF for advice on next steps. The copyright 
holders (the Nagios plugins team and Ethan Galstad) are the only ones 
empowered to act against violations, but I, for one, intend to get 
Uptime Software to comply to the GPL.

Ton