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

[Jonathan Gonzalez V.]

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Ricardo Nabinger,

I have approved your project.  You will receive an automated e-mail
containing detailed information about the approval.

Regards,

> Quoting  address@hidden (Jonathan Gonzalez V.)
> Sent on  Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:37:16 -0300
>
> Hello Jonathan Gonzalez,
>
>> 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? 
>
>>From their FAQ:
>
>     http://curl.haxx.se/docs/faq.html#6.6
>     6.6 Can you please change the curl/libcurl license to XXXX?
>     No.
>     <explanation>
>
> So I'll drop libcurl from the project.  In fact, I've already removed it,
> thus it is a little broken right now.  I can fix it later with some sockets
> and no external dependency. :)
>
>> 
>> 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.
>
> Fixed.  I renamed the directory to module/, these files are only necessary
> when one wants to integrate the agent into the Net-SNMP as a loadable
> module.  They are an interface to Net-SNMP, as you pointed.
>
>> 
>> 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 :)
>
> Oh man! :)
> Well, fixed.  GNU program --> Ramon
>
>> 
>> 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.
>
> The updated tarball is available at:
>
>       http://mutuca.metropoa.tche.br/~rnsanchez/rmon2_00028.tar.gz
>
> Thanks for your time, and best 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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