Streaming logs via rsyslog

[Deepak Kodihalli]

On 16/08/18 11:37 PM, Ed Tanous wrote:
> On 08/16/2018 03:21 AM, Deepak Kodihalli wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have a requirement to forward BMC logs (the systemd journal) to an 
>> external logging server.
>>
>> We're proposing doing this by making use of rsyslog. Here are notes 
>> based on some initial investigation.
>>
> 
>  From the rsyslog github page
> 
> """
> Rsyslog's main sponsor Adiscon tries to fund rsyslog by selling custom 
> development and support contracts. Adiscon does NOT license rsyslog 
> under a commercial license (this is simply impossible for anyone due to 
> rsyslog's license structure).
> """
> 
> I think this license makes rsyslog a non-starter for most of the people 
> in this project, but I'm not a license expert.  We've looked at it in 
> the past, and while nice to use in practice, we couldn't overcome the 
> license conflicts and legal implications.

I'm not sure if that's the case, but I'm no license expert either. It 
looks like rsyslog's license is GPLv3. Is it that GPLv3 packages can't 
be part of a project that has an Apache license? I'll try to find out 
more about this from license experts.

Thanks,
Deepak