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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-04-12 00:20:58 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-04-12 00:24:39 +0200
commit5430f7f2bc7330f3088b894166bf3524a067e3d8 (patch)
tree642d498d4208dfdf9b5db12e7d1167342cf9204b /README
parente8854556417197e195196e94c74bc01ff5d064ff (diff)
relicense to LGPLv2.1 (with exceptions)
We finally got the OK from all contributors with non-trivial commits to relicense systemd from GPL2+ to LGPL2.1+. Some udev bits continue to be GPL2+ for now, but we are looking into relicensing them too, to allow free copy/paste of all code within systemd. The bits that used to be MIT continue to be MIT. The big benefit of the relicensing is that closed source code may now link against libsystemd-login.so and friends.
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@@ -24,11 +24,15 @@ BUG REPORTS:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=systemd
AUTHOR:
- Lennart Poettering with major support from Kay Sievers
+ Lennart Poettering
+ Kay Sievers
+ ...and many others
LICENSE:
- GPLv2+ for all code, except sd-daemon.[ch] and
- sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT
+ LGPLv2.1+ for all code
+ - except sd-daemon.[ch] and sd-readahead.[ch] which are MIT
+ - except src/udev/ which is GPLv2.0+, excluding
+ src/udev/libudev* which is LGPLv2.1+
REQUIREMENTS:
Linux kernel >= 2.6.39