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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6446700 for the entire comments > and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6448366 for the specific claim > made by the user synchronise. > > As far as I understood, an API cannot be under any license/copyright. > Just the method/code implementing it is. > > Anyway, to avoid any misunderstandings, could a main developer clarify > if the systemd API is or is not under a copyright / license and if it > is, which?
If you have legal questions, please contact a lawyer, not a programmer. greg k-h _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel