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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:26 +0900
From:	GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@...il.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...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

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.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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