launchd for Linux

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:46 +0200, Ruben Vermeersch wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:10 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 23:30 +0200, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote:
> > >  http://jw.dyndns.org/initng/ -- this pice of software looks very nice. 
> > > Maybe it could be an Breezy+1 goal? :-) After all we target faster 
> > > startup times.
> > 
> > launchd itself has license issues - stuff under the APSL has already
> > been removed from Ubuntu.
> 
> As with eg. Rendezvous (now bonjour), a reimplementation could be made
> off course (cf. Avahi [1]), it's the system we want, not the code :-)

Yeah. As long as it's a complete reimplementation rather than being
derived from the launchd code, there's no problem.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org