[Bug 219025] Review Request: ntop - A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command

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Summary: Review Request: ntop - A network traffic probe similar to the UNIX top command
Alias: ntop

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219025





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2007-02-26 14:17 EST -------
(In reply to comment #51)
> This is nuts; the presense of files with different licenses in a single packages
> is perfectly fine as long as all of those files are used in accordance with
> their licenses.  Sure, you can't derive a GPL work from one with the Apache
> License v2; you can't take a piece of a GPL program and use it in an ASL2
> program, nor can you do the reverse, but that's not what's being done here.  The
> files are merely being aggregated, and the GPL is clear about "mere aggregation".

I have seen interpretations of what is mere aggregation and derived 
work that don't follow that one. I have seen somewhere that being 
in the same tarball was not mere aggregation but derived work. 
In fact, still if I recall well it is the court that would settle 
that. Considering that files in the same tarball should have 
compatible license would put us on the safe side. However if 
the authors of the 2 pieces of software are the same people then 
it is not that problematic, since the
author would have to attack himself. The issue in that case is 
that a court may rule that both license cannot apply to the 
package. 

As a disclaimer, I have to add that I am not a lawyer and I may 
be completely wrong.

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