I was considering how to create a new PMDA that is not encumbered.
genpmda(1) looks like a handy place to start, but it emits per cluster
source files that begin ...
* Copyright (c) 2005 Silicon Graphics, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Now I don't think that is even legally correct:
(a) it is not 2005, and (more importantly)
(b) SGI did not create this source in the traditional sense of creating
copyrightable material.
So it would be nice if someone inside sgi could get legal to offer an
opinion, and if I am right, then accept a patch to remove this copyright
assertion from the output of genpmda.
And the pmdas that are installed with source from the binary pcp
packages (simple, trivial and txmon) are all sgi copyright and GPL'd.
So I think we (the pcp-hackers of the world) need the source code for a
reference pmda in the public domain to encourage new (and for the most
part proprietary) pmdas to be developed for the new places pcp is being
deployed.
Thoughts?
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