Re: [PATCH v3] tools/lib/traceevent: Replace str_error_r() with an open coded implementation

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Oct 05 2018 - 12:10:03 EST


Em Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 11:58:43AM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:47:40 -0300 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Yep, I've been looking at these. I'll need to add yet another version,
> > > so that we can have it for the external libtraceevent. I'll be sending
> > > out a patch shortly.
> >
> > Unfortunately, yes, due to licensing and because we don't have a
> > liblinux with the things in tools/lib/*.c, we need to relicense that as
> > at least LGPL 2.1 :-\
> >
> > Lets start here, whoever reads this message, would you have a problem
> > with relicensing what is in tools/lib/*.c and tools/lib/api/ as LGPL
> > 2.1?
> >
>
> All of the libtraceeevent code was already licensed as LGPL 2.1 to
> begin with. It was taken from trace-cmd which had that as LGPL as well.

yes, sure, you did it right :-)

- Arnaldo