From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764642AbZFRO2s (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:28:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762916AbZFRO1E (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:27:04 -0400 Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25]:55954 "EHLO tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759997AbZFRO0w convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:26:52 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqIEABnlOUpMQWZ4/2dsb2JhbACBUNAWhAgF Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:26:49 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: davem@redhat.com, Pierre-Marc Fournier Cc: bob_jenkins@burtleburtle.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: jhash.h license Message-ID: <20090618142649.GA15262@Krystal> References: <4A3A4A57.8070606@polymtl.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT In-Reply-To: <4A3A4A57.8070606@polymtl.ca> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 10:21:18 up 110 days, 10:47, 4 users, load average: 1.72, 1.67, 1.20 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Dave, It looks like we would need the jhash.h implementation from the Linux kernel for the LGPL LTTng tracing library. It seems this code is derived from Bob Jenkins' public domain code. Is your intent to release it as public domain too ? Otherwise we'll have to re-do some adaptations from his sources at http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/ . Thanks, Mathieu * Pierre-Marc Fournier (pierre-marc.fournier@polymtl.ca) wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I am currently working on a userspace port of the LTTng tracer. Would > allow me to distribute jhash.h from the Linux kernel as LGPL v2.1? > > I am not sure whether your intent was to distribute the file in the > public domain, keeping Bob Jenkins' licence, or as GPL. > > Thanks. > > pmf > -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68