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

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Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:31:47 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>,
	GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Zhao Lei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dominique Toupin <dominique.toupin@...csson.com>,
	Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@...ymtl.ca>,
	Pierre-Marc Fournier <pierre-marc.fournier@...ymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2,
	headers to Dual BSD/GPL


* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.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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