From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 18:12:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102270346.9242.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Sul, 2004-12-05 at 00:53, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Now, clearly I can do this under the GPL. However, I think it would
> be more useful to have the library under the LGPL, which requires
> either getting the permission of the authors of the kernel files, or
> rewriting them from scratch.
Why not use the mozilla ones ? Some of them are kernel ones reused with
permission and others are reimplementations but it has a fair set of
functions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-05 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-05 0:53 Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library Paul Mackerras
2004-12-05 1:08 ` Robert Love
2004-12-05 1:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-12-05 2:10 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-12-05 3:51 ` Roland McGrath
2004-12-05 2:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-05 2:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-12-05 4:06 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-12-05 18:12 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-12-05 19:48 ` Joseph Seigh
2004-12-05 23:29 ` Joel Becker
2004-12-06 9:42 ` Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
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2004-12-05 6:18 Dan Kegel
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