[smartmontools-support]Licensing models question

[Daniel Z. <da...@no...>]

Hello, I am a development manager at Nortel (http://www.nortel.com/).
My group does embedded software development, running on top of VxWorks
(a product of WindRiver http://www.windriver.com/).  Our code is
ultimately built into a number of products based on Nortel's
Multiservice Switch portfolio
(http://products.nortel.com/go/product_content.jsp?parId=3D0&segId=3D0&ca=
tId
=3D-9785&prod_id=3D29500&locale=3Den-US). =20

We would like to be able to include Smartmon capabilities for analysis
of the state of the disks in the product.  While we are willing and
hoping to act in the spirit of open source, we have some concerns with
the use of the GPL in our product, and would rather use the Smartmon
under a different licensing model.  Would you be  willing to offer the
source code under another licensing scheme, for example, the Apache
licensing model (http://www.apache.org/licenses)?  This has been
reviewed extensively by our "corporate" and they are comfortable with
the obligations, rights and risks associated with it.

We would appreciate your feedback on the best way to move forward with
this.  Thanks very much.

Daniel Zlatin
Manager, RNC Base Development