[PATCH 4/4] Mark nscd service as forking in systemd service file (#16639)

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 02/27/2014 01:57 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> 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.

That is correct, the GNU C Library cannot use this code as-is because
the copyright has not been transfered to the FSF and only Lennary can do
that (along with everyone else who might have touched the code).

Cheers,
Carlos.