From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Novafora relicenses Transmeta sparse copyrights under the MIT license Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:06:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <49E51310.3050005@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54213 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751949AbZDOAIj (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:08:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49E51310.3050005@zytor.com> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Robert Bedichek On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Novafora has agreed to relicense the copyrights in sparse that were previously > owned by Transmeta (i.e. the work Linus did before 2003-07-01) under the MIT > license. > > Git repository: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=devel/sparse/novafora/sparse.git;a=summary That commit is also merged into my copy of sparse at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/sparse.git;a=summary but it's mixed in with some of my other local changes (warnings for weak functions being used in the same compilation unit - it triggers a bug in some gcc versions), so if you want just the relicensing it's probably better to pull the 'Novafora' branch from the repo Peter points to. Now, to actually relicense all of git we need to get all other authors to agree, but I think we pretty much had that agreement already several years ago. I'm certainly personally ok with just going with the MIT license, but if people want something else, then obviously that license is compatible with a lot of other open-source licenses.. Linus