From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: [ltt-dev] Moving Userspace RCU (urcu) from GPL to LGPL license
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:34:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090218213448.3b467c88@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090218180232.GA21389@Krystal>
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:02:32 -0500
Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj at krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:
> only thing is that we cannot put GPL code into a LGPL library.
You'll need a patent grant from IBM for non GPL use for that not just an
LGPL library
> The other point is that I use a few low-level primitives from the Linux
> kernel header (e.g. atomic increment for x86, barrier macros). Those are
> simple one-liners, but, still, I wonder about the licensing
> implications. I could simply "rewrite" them, but that would be a shame
Ask the author - certainly the original basic atomic ops Linus gave
specific permission to the mozilla folks to use under other licences.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-18 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-18 18:02 Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-18 20:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-02-18 20:47 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-02-18 21:34 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-02-18 21:44 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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