RE: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
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

RE: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-13 Thread Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
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? Sarvi -Original Message- From: Scott James Remnant [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:20 -0700, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) wrote: If I had a proprietary program and wanted to talk to Upstart. Licence your program under the GPL. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist? signature.asc

Re: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-13 Thread Michael Biebl
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

Re: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Michael Biebl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/12 Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, As Garret Cooper mentioned earlier, my team at Cisco is thinking of working with Upstart as a process manager. One of the questions that have come up

RE: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-12 Thread Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
to this effort. Sarvi -Original Message- From: Michael Biebl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:32 PM To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) Cc: upstart-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Upstart Client Library Importance: High 2008/6/12 Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi

RE: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-12 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Sarvi, This sounds like Upstart is proposing a hard dependendency on D-Bus. Is this really necessary. Has the impact on small/embedded platforms been considered. please lets not have this discussion again. D-Bus is perfectly fine for embedded systems. Actually having more than one IPC is

Re: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-12 Thread Harald Hoyer
Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi): This sounds like Upstart is proposing a hard dependendency on D-Bus. It proposes a hard dependency on the d-bus library and protocol. (There needs to be *some* way of talking to init ... and the d-bus protocol seems to be reasonably

Re: Upstart Client Library

2008-06-12 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Matthias, This sounds like Upstart is proposing a hard dependendency on D-Bus. It proposes a hard dependency on the d-bus library and protocol. (There needs to be *some* way of talking to init ... and the d-bus protocol seems to be reasonably sane for doing this kind of thing) this

Upstart Client Library

2008-06-11 Thread Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)
Hi, As Garret Cooper mentioned earlier, my team at Cisco is thinking of working with Upstart as a process manager. One of the questions that have come up with respect to a client library to control Upstart. There is a need for a process to talk/listen to the UpstartInit process for the