Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:31:47 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2, headers to Dual BSD/GPL |
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* 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.
We need a clean interface instead of some messy bindings - why do you need a different license to kernel/tracepoint.c?
Ingo
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