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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)


On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:46:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The sd_notify code in question is 68 lines (including whitespace and
> whatnot) covered by the following copyright and license statement:
> 
> /***
>   Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
> 
>   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>   obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files
>   (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
>   including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
>   publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
>   and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
>   subject to the following conditions:
> 
>   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>   included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
>   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
>   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
>   MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
>   NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
>   BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
>   ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
>   CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
>   SOFTWARE.
> ***/
> 
> No idea what the copyright assignment status of the relevant parties is.

Since it says "Copyright 2010 Lennary Poettering", the copyright is
explicitly not assigned to anyone else. I don't think glibc could use
the code in this form.

Rich


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