Henrik St?rner wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:34:34PM +0100, Jan Vojtko wrote:
Hi, we would like to use hobbit as the part of our monitoring system delivered to our customers.
You should read the COPYING file that comes with Hobbit, that is the official license text for Hobbit.
Can we do it?
That means you will be "distributing" Hobbit in the legal sense of the word, and therefore all of the terms of the GPLv2 license come into play. What this means is essentially that if you make any modifications to the Hobbit source code, then you must make these modifications available to everyone - e.g. by posting the source code to your modified Hobbit on a website. That includes any bugfixes, enhancements, custom add-ons and modifications etc. Anything except changes to the configuration files.
I am interested here. Say I work for a hosting company and I am selling dedicated servers. If I install the hobbit client on the server to monitor the server, am I "distributing" the code? Is this not more Software as a Service that was covered under GPLv3? Again this is just a point of interest for a Friday afternoon.
Cheers
Iain
You are also obliged to provide your customers with the source code to Hobbit if they ask for it, for a period of at least 3 years. And your customer is entitled to re-distribute Hobbit to others (if they want to do so, rather than just download it directly from Sourceforge).
Apart from that, you can pretty much do as you please. I would appreciate it if you would consider contributing something to the Hobbit developers (i.e. me) via the Paypal link on www.xymon.com, but there is no legal obligation for you to do that.
Regards, Henrik
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