launchd for Linux

[Ruben Vermeersch]

On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:53 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 07:42 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> 
> > IIRC the APSL has been deemed open source and nothing evil by more
> > than enough commentators.
> 
> 12.1(c) terminates the license if you sue Apple for patent infringement.
> So, (hypothetically) assume that IBM sues Apple for use of some
> unlicensed technology in the design of the case for the new iBrush(tm).
> IBM loses the right to use any material under the APSL, and can no
> longer run Ubuntu internally because it copies APSLed material onto
> their systems on install. Does this not strike you as something of an
> issue?

Why is this all of a sudden one big license issue? Launchd is a part of
darwin, not linux. Sure, having the thing accept the same config files
would be handy for application maintainers, but given the time that
would probably needed to port this to linux, why not just re-implement
it right away, under the GPL?

Problem solved ;-)


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Ruben Vermeersch
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