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SubjectRequest for contributor approval: Relicensing rseq selftests to MIT
Hi,

I would like to get contributor approval to relicense the rseq selftests
within the Linux kernel and the librseq project to MIT. This will make
it easier to use librseq from statically built applications, and I wish
to continue sharing code between the kernel rseq selftests and librseq.

Allowing use of rseq application headers from statically built
applications was the intent from the beginning, but it turns out that
having the rseq.c initialization code under LGPL2.1 makes it harder than
it should be for users.

The current contributor summary commit-wise under
tools/testing/selftests/rseq is:

269 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
6 Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
5 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
3 Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
3 Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
2 Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
1 Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
1 Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
1 Sabyasachi Gupta <sabyasachi.linux@gmail.com>
1 Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
1 Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@sifive.com>
1 Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
1 Xingxing Su <suxingxing@loongson.cn>

Header files are currently dual-licensed LGPL2.1/MIT, which is
somewhat redundant with plain MIT.

rseq.c was licensed under LGPL2.1. Relicencing it to MIT will facilitate
its integration into statically built applications.

In order to facilitate eventual code sharing between tests and the
library implementation, I would like to relicense the tests from LGPL2.1
to MIT as well.

Many of the contributions are trivial, but I prefer to kindly ask for
approval nevertheless.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
https://www.efficios.com

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