Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core? [LWN.net]

Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

Posted Jul 19, 2010 23:57 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core? by SEJeff
Parent article: Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

Part of the reason why pretty much every distribution has moved from syslog to rsyslog instead of syslog-ng.

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Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

Posted Jul 20, 2010 14:00 UTC (Tue) by frobert (guest, #62734) [Link] (3 responses)

Seems they have also realized this and going for an LGPL+GPL combo license: http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2010/07/syslog-ng-contributions-redefined.html.

Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

Posted Jul 20, 2010 16:19 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Excellent! And Baszi used this as an excuse to make an architectural improvement as well :)

Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

Posted Jul 20, 2010 18:39 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (guest, #51588) [Link] (1 responses)

Very cool, but features still in syslog-ng enterprise that you pay for are in rsyslog for free.

Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?

Posted Jul 21, 2010 6:25 UTC (Wed) by frobert (guest, #62734) [Link]

That's right. But as it goes, people have to make a living somehow. I think Bazsi would be the happiest if he hadn't have to maintain two different versions of the same stuff.