[PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)
Rich Felker
dalias@aerifal.cx
Thu Feb 27 18:57:00 GMT 2014
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:46:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The sd_notify code in question is 68 lines (including whitespace and
> whatnot) covered by the following copyright and license statement:
>
> /***
> Copyright 2010 Lennart Poettering
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files
> (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction,
> including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
> publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software,
> and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
> subject to the following conditions:
>
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS
> BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN
> ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
> CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
> SOFTWARE.
> ***/
>
> No idea what the copyright assignment status of the relevant parties is.
Since it says "Copyright 2010 Lennary Poettering", the copyright is
explicitly not assigned to anyone else. I don't think glibc could use
the code in this form.
Rich
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