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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Hi Waleed,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">It seems there are many different licenses for the plugins of collectd:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Category:License"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Category:License</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">As far as I am aware though, the plugins in the collectd source tree are all written in C.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">If you want a Python-based plugin, you would have to host it separately.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Intel Research and Development Ireland Limited<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Registered in Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Registered Number: 308263<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_____replyseparator"></a><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> collectd [mailto:collectd-bounces@verplant.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Abdul Waheed<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 4, 2015 5:45 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> octo@collectd.org; collectd@verplant.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [collectd] Question about contributing collectd plugins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">On Sunday, August 9, 2015 11:03 PM, Abdul Waheed <<a href="mailto:awaheed777@yahoo.com">awaheed777@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I am a collectd user. I have recently developed a few python plugins for my employer to monitor Linux servers in a widely distributed cloud computing
environment. These plugins collect extensive virtual memory and storage devices related metrics. I am considering contributing them back to collectd. In order to get permission to open source these plugins, I need to know if there are any licensing requirements
that will have to be fulfilled. On our end, we can open source only through BSD license. Let me know if it will work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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