Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:26 +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 4:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote: > Yes, the legality of such relicensing is questionable as that code was > never developed outside of the kernel but as part of the kernel. > > But i also disagree with it on a technical level: code duplication is > _bad_. Why does the code have to be duplicated in user-space like that? > I'd like Linux tracing code to be in the kernel repo. Why isnt this done > properly, as part of the kernel project - to make sure it all stays in > sync? It's right. I am not a special lawyer about license issues currently. But, Consider GPL v2 license with philosophical view. I think that this re-licensing have a some problems in Linux kernel(GPL v2) at least. > So for those two grounds i cannot give my permission for this > relicensing, sorry. I agree with your opinion. > Ingo >
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