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From: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
To: Raz <raziebe@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org>
Subject: Re: Permission to use list.h and atomic.h in user space
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A401C19.8090102@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d96567b0906220644p4c412163m26d7cb16e6e5c58d@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/22/2009 07:44 AM, Raz wrote:
> Hello
> May I have permission to use atomic64.h ,atomic32.h and list.h in a
> proprietary software ?
> I do not know who the authors are.
> Thank you
> Raz

You would likely have to basically track down everyone who has ever 
contributed to those files and get their permission, which seems 
unlikely. So the short answer is almost certainly no.

With newer gcc there are atomic built-in functions which will likely do 
what you want for the atomic ops at least..

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-23  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <5d96567b0906220510q32d0280diec9a2179ed37216e@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20090622153701.1012ca3c@t61.ukuu.org.uk>
2009-06-22 13:44   ` Permission to use list.h and atomic.h in user space Raz
2009-06-22 14:10     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-06-23  0:04     ` Robert Hancock [this message]

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