linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/string: Bring optimized memcmp from glibc

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Message-ID: <YPg0Ylbmk4qIZ/63@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:51:14 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, david@...morbit.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string: Bring optimized memcmp from glibc

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 03:42:10PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 05:35:42PM +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 21.07.21 ??. 17:32, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > This seems to have lost the copyright notices from glibc.
> > > 
> > 
> > I copied over only the code, what else needs to be brought up:
> > 
> >  Copyright (C) 1991-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
> >    Contributed by Torbjorn Granlund (tege@...s.se).
> > 
> > The rest is the generic GPL license txt ?
> 
> Last time I checked glibc is under LGPL.

This particular file is under LGPL-2.1, so we can distribute it under
GPL 2.