[ANNOUNCE] upstart 0.5.2 released

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 10:06 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> > If you had standalone tools/command or utility programs that don't talk
> > to each other, I suspect it would have been ok.
> > 
> > Upstart is one of those applications that everyone in the system needs
> > to communicate via D-Bus messaging where the Message API is defined by a
> > GPLv3 application in this case Upstart. 
> > 
> The Upstart D-Bus interface is very much intended to be a public
> interface that any software may use without licence contamination.  The
> D-Bus protocol is an official freedesktop.org standard, and the Upstart
> interface is published and documented over that protocol according to
> the standard.
> 
> This is a long way from "intimate" (the old IPC interface 0.3 uses could
> be described as intimate, and one of the reasons it was dropped was to
> avoid this issue).
> 
> If this needs specific addressing, I could add a comment to the
> dbus/*.xml (which define the interfaces) explicitly stating that
> software may freely use these interfaces.
> 
Since it seems to make sense to do so anyway, I have made this change
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~scott/upstart/trunk/revision/1120
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~scott/upstart/0.5/revision/1083

It also makes sense to me that people should be able to copy these files
into their tree to generate bindings based from them, so I've placed
them under a permissive licence.

Scott
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