Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Proposal for a userspace "architecture portability" library | Date | Sun, 5 Dec 2004 02:40:49 +0000 (UTC) |
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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.
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