From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261229AbULEClD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:41:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261230AbULEClD (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:41:03 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:1429 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261229AbULEClA (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 21:41:00 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, which We do not fancy Message-ID: References: <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1102214449 19352 127.0.0.1 (5 Dec 2004 02:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:40:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <16818.23575.549824.733470@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> By author: Paul Mackerras 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