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Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:03:52 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
       "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
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Subject: Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2,
 headers to Dual BSD/GPL
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> (updated email for Jesper Juhl)
> 
> * Mathieu Desnoyers (mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.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.
> > 
> > I currently have the OK from Kosaki Motohiro for Fujitsu contributions,
> > which includes Zhao Lei and Lai Jiangshan.
> > 
> > The missing approvals for Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 relicensing are:
> > 
> > For tracepoint.c:
> > 
> > Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
> > 
> > For marker.c:
> > 
> > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
> > Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
> 
> Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> 

I don't think I have enough significant changes in there to actually 
require my approval for relicensing, but since you ask; I personally 
do not have a problem with that file being Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL v2 
licensed.

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