2008/6/13 Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 7:51 AM >>To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) >>Cc: Matthias Urlichs; upstart-devel@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? >> > > -- > upstart-devel mailing list > upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel > -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? -- upstart-devel mailing list upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
