From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752389AbZJXV1E (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:27:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752075AbZJXV1D (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:27:03 -0400 Received: from tomts43.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.110]:58586 "EHLO tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751331AbZJXV1B (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:27:01 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArwEAJ8I40pGGN1W/2dsb2JhbACBUNNihD8E Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:22:01 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Adrian Bunk , Harvey Harrison , "Robert P. J. Day" , Jaswinder Singh Rajput , GeunSik Lim , Wu Fengguang , Ingo Molnar , Frederic Weisbecker , Steven Rostedt , Lai Jiangshan , Zhao Lei , KOSAKI Motohiro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dominique Toupin , Michel Dagenais , Pierre-Marc Fournier Subject: Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2, headers to Dual BSD/GPL Message-ID: <20091024212201.GA18184@Krystal> References: <20091023160257.GA30447@Krystal> <20091023160632.GA2198@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.27.31-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 17:20:56 up 67 days, 8:10, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.12, 0.17 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 * Jesper Juhl (jj@chaosbits.net) wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > (updated email for Jesper Juhl) > > > > * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to re-license the tracepoint.c/marker.c files from GPL to: > > > > > > * Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 license. > > > > > > And re-license tracepoint.h/marker.h to: > > > > > > * Dual BSD/GPL v2 license. > > > > > > The goal is to allow sharing code between the kernel tracer and UST > > > (User-Space Tracer) project, which is a LGPL v2.1 library. Tracepoint > > > and marker headers might need to be included by proprietary or BSD > > > applications, hence the dual BSD/GPL v2 license for these two. > > > > > > I currently have the OK from Kosaki Motohiro for Fujitsu contributions, > > > which includes Zhao Lei and Lai Jiangshan. > > > > > > The missing approvals for Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 relicensing are: > > > > > > For tracepoint.c: > > > > > > Jaswinder Singh Rajput > > > > > > For marker.c: > > > > > > "Robert P. J. Day" > > > Adrian Bunk > > > Harvey Harrison > > > > Jesper Juhl > > > > I don't think I have enough significant changes in there to actually > require my approval for relicensing, but since you ask; I personally > do not have a problem with that file being Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 > licensed. I wonder if trivial one-liners and cleanups require the approval from the contributors. In doubt, I prefer to ask. But you might be right that it's not actually needed. Thanks! Mathieu > > -- > Jesper Juhl http://www.chaosbits.net/ > Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html > Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html > -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68