Re:Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system
by asdfs on Saturday February 08, 2014 @09:40PM
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The difference is that upstream for upstart is open to BSD/Hurd/etc. ports, whereas upstream for systemd is pretty strongly opposed to them and it does not seem they would assist in the effort.
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Re:Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system
by 0x006A on Sunday February 09, 2014 @03:56AM
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As long as you are willing to sign the copyright license agreement,
which was one of the reasons systemd was started instead of improving upstart.
Re:Debian committee members vote for systemd as init system
by rodgerd on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:23PM
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The upstream is GPL + CLA. From a Debian perspective that's something of a non-starter. You could fork it, but then you're in the same position as you would be with systemd.
Moreover systemd has defined a bunch of stable interfaces; one could choose to expose equivalent interfaces in the HURD rather than port. Upstart seems to be in the "implementation = interface" camp.