Upstart Client Library

[Michael Biebl]

2008/6/13 Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) <sarvi at cisco.com>:
> If I had a proprietary program and wanted to talk to Upstart. I believe
> I can only link a LGPLed client library into my application, correct?
> That library most likely has to share atleast header files with a piece
> of code in the GPLed Upstart Init code so that they share a common
> message structure and enum definitions.
>
> If those shared header files (shared between the GPLed Upstart Init and
> LPGLed Upstart Client library) are licensed under GPL, doesn't that
> contaminate the LPL licensing of the Client library?

The D-Bus library is dual licensed under the GPL | AFL 2.0 , which
ttbomk  allows it to be linked into proprietary, closed-sourced
applications.

Really, what your are trying to achieve is to re-invent libdbus.

Michael

> Sarvi
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Scott James Remnant [mailto:scott at netsplit.com]
>>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 7:51 AM
>>To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
>>Cc: Matthias Urlichs; upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>>Subject: RE: Upstart Client Library
>>Importance: High
>>
>>On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:54 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:
>>
>>> May be a different way to ask this question is would it make
>>sense to
>>> have some of the header files associated with the message/errr
>>> definitions under the upstart directory LGPLed.
>>>
>>> This would make it simpler for people to write other forms of client
>>> libraries for communication with Upstart?
>>>
>>You can use GPL libraries from GPL programs, the library does
>>not need to be LGPL for you to be able to use it.
>>
>>Scott
>>--
>>Have you ever, ever felt like this?
>>Had strange things happen?  Are you going round the twist?
>>
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