From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752603Ab0L1VE1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:04:27 -0500 Received: from mail.openrapids.net ([64.15.138.104]:57227 "EHLO blackscsi.openrapids.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750975Ab0L1VE0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:04:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:04:22 -0500 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: tiwg@multicore-association.org Cc: Tim Bird , Tasneem Brutch - SISA , Steve Rostedt , ltt-dev@lists.casi.polymtl.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] BabelTrace relicensing from LGPLv2.1 to MIT-style Message-ID: <20101228210422.GA25127@Krystal> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://www.efficios.com X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.26-2-686 (i686) X-Uptime: 15:48:25 up 35 days, 1:51, 6 users, load average: 0.21, 0.09, 0.01 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 Due to popular demand, I changed the licensing of the BabelTrace trace conversion library from LGPL to MIT (BSD style) (tree: http://git.efficios.com/?p=babeltrace.git commit ccd7e1c86f36342b0b06651cc52df86bb663c271) This is done in the spirit of sharing the prototype reference implementation of the Common Trace Format (CTF: http://www.efficios.com/ctf) within the BabelTrace trace converter with the industry, allowing uses in proprierary operating systems and in hardware devices generating traces, as well as simplifying reimplementation of the CTF read-side in different languages, for instance in Java for the Eclipse Tracing and Monitoring Framework. The goal here is to favor a wide acceptance of the trace format both in tracers and trace analysis tools. The CTF read-side part of the BabelTrace library is designed to be reused within trace analysis tools. Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com