Upstart Client Library

[Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)]

This makes sense to me. Let me look into the size of libdbus. 

Sarvi 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Biebl [mailto:mbiebl at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 8:38 AM
>To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
>Cc: upstart-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>Subject: Re: Upstart Client Library
>Importance: High
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>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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