From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:40:49 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cotsfh$isn$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com
Followup to: <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
By author: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Now, clearly I can do this under the GPL. However, I think it would
> be more useful to have the library under the LGPL, which requires
> either getting the permission of the authors of the kernel files, or
> rewriting them from scratch.
>
> Linus (and other kernel copyright holders) - would you be willing to
> relicense such of the above files that have your copyright under the
> LGPL for this purpose?
>
> I'm looking for volunteers to help with porting and testing on various
> architectures. I can do x86, ppc and ppc64, and I know sparc{,64} and
> m68k assembler, but for the rest I'll need help.
>
I can certainly pitch in. I would personally prefer to see this under
the BSD license, (a) because it's not really that much code, and (b)
because it would let me add it to klibc.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-05 2:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-05 0:53 Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library Paul Mackerras
2004-12-05 1:08 ` Robert Love
2004-12-05 1:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-12-05 2:10 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-12-05 3:51 ` Roland McGrath
2004-12-05 2:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-12-05 2:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-12-05 4:06 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2004-12-05 18:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-05 19:48 ` Joseph Seigh
2004-12-05 23:29 ` Joel Becker
2004-12-06 9:42 ` Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
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2004-12-05 6:18 Dan Kegel
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