I wrote the memcached sysv script and adapted it to fit fedora norms.  No
worries there regarding license.

2010/9/25 dormando <[email protected]>

> Uhhhm.
>
> memcached-init is from:
>
> commit 4b1b1ae76ef6e78dd3f1d753931ac8051ae99e9a
> Author: Brad Fitzpatrick <[email protected]>
> Date:   Tue Dec 30 19:56:33 2003 +0000
>
> I assume brad copied the skeleton files and modified it. IANAL so I'm not
> sure how much of it had to be changed to be able to flip the license, but
> it seems like a trivial script.
>
> The sysv one is from:
>
> commit 275f8c40705526ac4514d5dcff2cbf0311b540ac
> Author: Paul Lindner <[email protected]>
> Date:   Fri May 4 11:23:02 2007 +0000
>
>    add rpm spec file, new sysv init script
>
> So uh. Paul? Care to comment?
>
> and finally, may I ask why you're finding this issue? Do you work for a
> distro or are just curious? Or you're trying to package it up and sell it?
> :P
>
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Tomasz Zieliński wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've noticed that the two scripts mentioned in the subject are
> > probably taken from some external
> > sources and licensed under different licenses than Memcached itself.
> >
> > Memcached-init clearly says that it is taken from Debian. It's similar
> > to /etc/init.s/skeleton on my Ubuntu 9.04,
> > which belongs to initscripts package and that package is licensed
> > under GPL3.
> > Not sure which license applies to the memcached-init, but I suppose
> > it's either GPL2 or GPL3.
> >
> > Regarding memcached.sysv, I found a similar script here:
> >
> http://killersoft-yum.googlecode.com/svn-history/r24/trunk/repo/SOURCES/memcached.sysv
> > - not sure who copied it from who, but in case killersoft-yum was
> > first - it's licensed under MIT license (http://code.google.com/p/
> > killersoft-yum/ -> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
> >
> > Can someone responsible for this area comment on the topic?
> >
> > --
> > Tomasz Zielinski
> >
>



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