Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library

[hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)]

Followup to:  <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
By author:    Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 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.
> 
> Linus (and other kernel copyright holders) - would you be willing to
> relicense such of the above files that have your copyright under the
> LGPL for this purpose?
> 
> I'm looking for volunteers to help with porting and testing on various
> architectures.  I can do x86, ppc and ppc64, and I know sparc{,64} and
> m68k assembler, but for the rest I'll need help.
> 

I can certainly pitch in.  I would personally prefer to see this under
the BSD license, (a) because it's not really that much code, and (b)
because it would let me add it to klibc.

	-hpa