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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:31:47 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2,
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* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I would like to re-license the tracepoint.c/marker.c files from GPL 
> to:
> 
> * Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 license.
> 
> And re-license tracepoint.h/marker.h to:
> 
> * Dual BSD/GPL v2 license.
> 
> The goal is to allow sharing code between the kernel tracer and UST 
> (User-Space Tracer) project, which is a LGPL v2.1 library. Tracepoint 
> and marker headers might need to be included by proprietary or BSD 
> applications, hence the dual BSD/GPL v2 license for these two.

We need a clean interface instead of some messy bindings - why do you 
need a different license to kernel/tracepoint.c?

	Ingo