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.
The default setups should be a stateless as possible. /tmp as tmpfs is
the intended default for general purpose systems.
Small temporary files should not be stored on disk; lager files, or
files which should potentially survive a reboot, belong into /var/tmp.
Also catch up with some good old UNIX history.
More details are here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs
Lennart Poettering