From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Zaytsev Subject: Re: Novafora relicenses Transmeta sparse copyrights under the MIT license Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:25:56 +0400 Message-ID: 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 mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:64485 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758509AbZDOMZ6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:25:58 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so2877957fxm.37 for ; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:25:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Robert Bedichek , Christopher Li , Josh Triplett On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > 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=3Ddevel/sparse/novafora/sparse.git;a=3Dsumm= ary Excellent news. Congratulations to everyone and special thanks to Peter and Robert. Now, should all the contributors jump in and state their consent with the relicensing? If so, for my modest contributions, you have it. While personally preferring LGPL, I'm also ok with MIT. > > That commit is also merged into my copy of sparse at > > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Dlinux/kernel/gi= t/torvalds/sparse.git;a=3Dsummary You might already know, but just in case, there is a new sparse develop= ment tree with some recent commits: http://git.kernel.org/?p=3Ddevel/sparse/chrisl/sparse.git;a=3Dsummary It probably should become the new official tree, if Josh and Christophe= r do not mind. -- 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