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    SubjectRe: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2, headers to Dual BSD/GPL

    * 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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