[ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 11:33 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote:

> Why the move to GPLv3. I am not sure how many in the community see this
> as a problem, but we do.
> 
Canonical's licensing policy is to use whatever licence is currently
recommended by the Free Software Foundation, that is v3 of the GPL.

> As a policy many don't use GPLv3 software because its not viewed as
> industry friendly. 
> 
As I'm sure you're away, Canonical has activities in the mobile and
embedded fields and many partners in this area.  I'm not aware of the
"industry unfriendly" nature that you speak of.

> Moreover, if you plan on Upstart being truly widely used and a true
> replacement for SysV Init, it should match the Linux Kernel Licensing
> whatever that might be. So that it really is part of the base core Linux
> infrastructure that  it is convenient for everyone to use together.
> 
The kernel is only one very small part of the "base core Linux
infrastructure", the C Library, Toolchain, Core utilities etc. are a
larger part and they are all increasingly GPLv3 at this point.

Scott
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