[AGENT++] Snmp++ license for Yocto

Isaac Nickaein nickaein.i at gmail.com
Sat Sep 1 16:04:46 CEST 2018


I see.

Thank you for the clarification.
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 2:21 AM Frank Fock <fock at agentpp.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> SNMP++ license is not equivalent with the BSD license. However, its licensing scheme cannot be changed anymore.
> That is a pity.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
> > On 19. Aug 2018, at 13:10, Isaac Nickaein <nickaein.i at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to add support for Snmp++ and Agent++ in Yocto. If you are
> > familiar with Yocto, you can skip the following paragraph. Otherwise,
> > here is a brief description:
> >
> > Yocto is a buildsystem widely used in embedded world, similar to
> > Buildroot but with much wider contribution. For each
> > application/library/component, a recipe can be written in Yocto which
> > information like source url, license, dependencies. The recipe also
> > have instruction about how the source of application/library can be
> > downloaded, compiled and deployed to the target system. For example,
> > here is the recipe for ZeroMQ library:
> >
> > http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-connectivity/zeromq/zeromq_4.2.5.bb
> >
> > I have written similar recipes for Snmp++ and Agent++ libraries and
> > planning to push it to upstream so other Yocto users would be able to
> > incorporate these libraries in their builds, given they adhere to the
> > license.
> >
> > Each recipe must specify the license info for the source it is trying
> > to build. These are the "standard" supported licenses:
> >
> > https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/files/common-licenses
> >
> > Agent++ is licensed as Apache-2.0, but I am unsure about Snmp++. Is
> > any of theses supported licenses close enough to mentioned for Snmp++
> > (e.g. BSD)?
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