Preface my following response with the fact that I'm not an Upstart developer, merely an "interested end-user" of this project.
At 7:44am -0500 on Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 13:14 +0100, Mark Rosenstand wrote: >> Is this the only thing that keeps upstart from working on non-initrd >> systems? Seems it didn't make it into 0.5.1 :( > > Nobody has supplied a patch. I can't speak for others, but I objected to assigning the copyright to someone else. At a first glance of "Would you be willing to adjust the patch and assign copyright to Canonical?" sounds like "Give us your work." To be blunt, if I wrote it, why should you profit? Even if only in the "Free" sense? However, after I actually RTFM, these two points alleviated my gut reaction: ----------- 5. Canonical grants back to you a non-exclusive, royalty-free, and perpetual right to use, modify, and distribute the Assigned Contributions as you wish. 6. Canonical will make the Assigned Contributions available under a "Free Software Licence", according to the definition of that term published by the Free Software Foundation. Such a licence will, at minimum, permit people receiving the software, without payment of a royalty to Canonical, to use, modify and redistribute under the same licence. Canonical may also make the Assigned Contributions available under other license terms. ----------- Since I would likely release personal work under a Free software license, these would satisfy me. However, I see no mention of attribution. I appreciate seeing who a project's major contributors are, either on a webpage, or in some file in the code repo. Call me conceited, but if I were a major contributor of a project, either past or present, I'd expect the same. In short, lacking a good argument not to be, I'm comfortable with the license, modulo the fact that there is no item to guarantee recognition. For some of us, especially in these "lay-off times", recognition of our contributions is the difference between a job and no-job. Kevin -- upstart-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/upstart-devel
