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SubjectRe: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2, headers to Dual BSD/GPL
(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 <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
>
> For marker.c:
>
> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>

Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>

>
> The missing approvals for Dual BSD/GPL relicensing are:
>
> For tracepoint.h:
>
> GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@gmail.com>
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
>
> For marker.h:
>
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>
> Note that the markers are now removed from the Linux kernel, but I still
> use them temporarily in the LTTng tree (until we do the switch to
> TRACE_EVENT). It's therefore also used by UST currently.
>
> Note, you may also need to get permission from your corporation to allow
> this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
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