[systemd-devel] License of systemd API

2013-09-26 Thread Olav Vitters
At Hackers News, someone (seemingly involved with OpenRC) claims that the systemd API is somehow licensed under the LGPL. Thus making it impossible for OpenRC to implement the same API. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446700 for the entire comments and

Re: [systemd-devel] License of systemd API

2013-09-26 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: At Hackers News, someone (seemingly involved with OpenRC) claims that the systemd API is somehow licensed under the LGPL. Thus making it impossible for OpenRC to implement the same API. See

Re: [systemd-devel] License of systemd API

2013-09-26 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 26.09.13 15:52, Olav Vitters (o...@vitters.nl) wrote: At Hackers News, someone (seemingly involved with OpenRC) claims that the systemd API is somehow licensed under the LGPL. Thus making it impossible for OpenRC to implement the same API. See

Re: [systemd-devel] License of systemd API

2013-09-26 Thread Adam Spragg
On 2013-09-26 17:11, Lennart Poettering wrote: And besides that: the glibc headers carry the word for word identical copyright header (only replacing systemd by GNU C Library). So if those headers are OK for usage with OpenRC the systemd headers should be too. But, if I understand correctly,

Re: [systemd-devel] License of systemd API

2013-09-26 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:46:40PM +0100, Adam Spragg wrote: On 2013-09-26 17:11, Lennart Poettering wrote: And besides that: the glibc headers carry the word for word identical copyright header (only replacing systemd by GNU C Library). So if those headers are OK for usage with OpenRC the