Streaming logs via rsyslog

[Deepak Kodihalli]

On 17/08/18 12:00 PM, Deepak Kodihalli wrote:
> 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.

I was just pointed out that Busybox itself is GPLv2, so rsyslog being 
GPLv3 seems to be usable without any concern?

Regards,
Deepak