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 > > > -- Paul Lindner -- [email protected] -- linkedin.com/in/plindner
