Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2023 14:17:57 -0500 | Subject | Re: Request for contributor approval: Relicensing rseq selftests to MIT | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> |
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On 2023-02-06 13:58, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > On 2023-02-06 13:36, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> 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> > > I am having issues reaching Martin Schwidefsky. In this case it's a > one-liner > contribution to a header which is going from LGPL2.1 OR MIT to MIT, > which is > fine because it just removes one of the pre-allowed licenses, thus removing > some redundancy. > > [ CCing Heiko Carstens ]
Trying with another email address for Heiko Carstens. Adding other s390 maintainers as well.
Thanks,
Mathieu
> > Rerefence: > > commit 3d4d1f05bc990f240d66b0ffaf7121397e14df19 > Author: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> > Date: Mon Apr 29 11:27:58 2019 -0400 > > rseq/selftests: s390: use trap4 for RSEQ_SIG > Use trap4 as the guard instruction for the restartable sequence abort > handler. > Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> > Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> > > Thanks, > > Mathieu > >> 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 >> >
-- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. https://www.efficios.com
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