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

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Date:   Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:34:57 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Peter.Enderborg@...y.com
Cc:     hch@...radead.org, tege@...s.se, 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 03:17:53PM +0000, Peter.Enderborg@...y.com wrote:
> On 7/21/21 4:51 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Sure. But should not Torbjörn Granlund have some cred?

I didn't say we could remove his copyright.  It's clearly still
copyright Torbjörn.