From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Re: Novafora relicenses Transmeta sparse copyrights under the MIT license Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:32:30 +0100 Message-ID: <49E6C2EE.5040201@cowlark.com> References: <49E51310.3050005@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from b.painless.aaisp.net.uk ([81.187.30.52]:41929 "EHLO b.painless.aaisp.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751671AbZDPFdM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:33:12 -0400 Received: from tiar.cowlark.co.uk ([81.187.191.218] helo=gate.cowlark.com) by b.painless.aaisp.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LuKDi-000807-TJ for linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:33:07 +0100 Received: from [12.51.3.3] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gate.cowlark.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14372C006 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:32:53 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Zaytsev wrote: [...] > Excellent news. Congratulations to everyone and special thanks > to Peter and Robert. Hurray! Definitely. Nice work. > Now, should all the contributors jump in and state their consent with > the relicensing? If so, for my modest contributions, you have it. Whi= le > personally preferring LGPL, I'm also ok with MIT. Same here (for my tiny little patches). I personally like MIT; I'm more interested in sparse as a *compiler*, not a linter, and right now the only MIT/BSD compilers are pcc (ancient= ) and llvm (complex), and I think sparse would work very nicely as a thir= d alternative with a little work. - -- =E2=94=8C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =EF=BD=84=EF=BD=87=EF=BC=A0=EF=BD=83= =EF=BD=8F=EF=BD=97=EF=BD=8C=EF=BD=81=EF=BD=92=EF=BD=8B=EF=BC=8E=EF=BD=83= =EF=BD=8F=EF=BD=8D =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 http:/= /www.cowlark.com =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 "All power corrupts, but we need electricity." --- Diana Wynn= e Jones, =E2=94=82 _Archer's Goon_ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ5sLcf9E0noFvlzgRAmdxAJ4xgeAHtfwo14/P5fpMFJ7AFZ9WgQCeNvje w/pZ98yJklTev4GN0cjS/nw=3D =3D/8hF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html