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

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Jesper Juhl (jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
> > (updated email for Jesper Juhl)
> > 
> > * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx) 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.
> > > 
> > > I currently have the OK from Kosaki Motohiro for Fujitsu contributions,
> > > which includes Zhao Lei and Lai Jiangshan.
> > > 
> > > The missing approvals for Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 relicensing are:
> > > 
> > > For tracepoint.c:
> > > 
> > > Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > For marker.c:
> > > 
> > > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> 
> I don't think I have enough significant changes in there to actually 
> require my approval for relicensing, but since you ask; I personally 
> do not have a problem with that file being Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 
> licensed.

I wonder if trivial one-liners and cleanups require the approval from
the contributors. In doubt, I prefer to ask. But you might be right that
it's not actually needed.

Thanks!

Mathieu

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