Wow, you guys got me worried here for a second, Im developing a commercial
product based on Net-SNMP...

That's good news.

Gilad.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thorbjörn Jemander" <thorbjorn@jemander.net>
To: "Ross Patterson" <Ross.Patterson@CatchFS.Com>
Cc: <tech-embed@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Vendor-friendly SNMP daemon?


> Hi,
>
> >Does anyone know of an SNMP daemon for NetBSD that allows commercial use?
An
> >open source implementation would be preferable, but something commercial
with
> >reasonable royalties would be of interest as well.  Net-snmp is the
obvious
> >answer, but it doesn't appear to be permitted as we sell the device we
want
> >to run this on.  The CMU copyright clause says:
>
> > Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
> > documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
> > ...
>
> I think you are misunderstanding the phrase "without fee". It should be
> interpreted as
> "one does not have to pay the originator the right to use, copy, modify
> etc",
> not as "you cannot charge for this or derivative work".
>
> There are several companies (among them one that I've worked for) that
> uses NET-SNMP in commerical
> products. If the latter interpretation were to be correct, the license
> would not have been compatible with DFSG
> (http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines) or OSD
> (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php), and then would not
> Debian or other free software projects wanted to distribute NET-SNMP.
>
> /Thorbjörn Jemander
>
>