Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:03:19 +0900 | Subject | Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2,headers to Dual BSD/GPL | From | GeunSik Lim <> |
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote: > * From: "Wu Fengguang" <fengguang.wu@intel.com> > Subject: Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2,headers to Dual BSD/GPL > > >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 05:03:52AM +0800, Jesper Juhl wrote: >>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >>> >>> > (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> >>> > >>> >>> I don't think I have enough significant changes in there to actually >>> require my approval for relicensing, but since you ask; I personally >>> do not have a problem with that file being Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 >>> licensed. >> >> Me too. >> >> Thanks, >> Fengguang > > Me too. > > Thanks, > Zhaolei
Sorry for the late reply. Why do we need a different license to GPLV2 sources that contributors submitted.? As Mathieu mentioned, I think that GPLV2 based some sources needs to be relicense to trace non-GPL applications for some developers and some companies.
In real, Some open source like QT, MySQL is licensed using dual license for business strategy. tracepoint.c/marker.c file is GPLv2 currently.
Can we re-distribute with dual license (e.g: bsd/gplv2 or lgpl 2.1/gplv2) about some source of linux kernel source? I think that linux kernel source is GPLv2 only. Frankly speaking, I am not know exactly about legal issues of your questions.
Thanks,
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