Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:34:48 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Moving Userspace RCU (urcu) from GPL to LGPL license |
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:02:32 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> wrote: > only thing is that we cannot put GPL code into a LGPL library.
You'll need a patent grant from IBM for non GPL use for that not just an LGPL library
> The other point is that I use a few low-level primitives from the Linux > kernel header (e.g. atomic increment for x86, barrier macros). Those are > simple one-liners, but, still, I wonder about the licensing > implications. I could simply "rewrite" them, but that would be a shame
Ask the author - certainly the original basic atomic ops Linus gave specific permission to the mozilla folks to use under other licences.
Alan
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