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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, Russ Allbery <eagle at eyrie dot org>
- Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:01:20 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)
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On 02/27/2014 01:57 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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.
That is correct, the GNU C Library cannot use this code as-is because
the copyright has not been transfered to the FSF and only Lennary can do
that (along with everyone else who might have touched the code).
Cheers,
Carlos.