Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756104AbZFWAES (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:04:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752874AbZFWAEJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:04:09 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com ([209.85.217.214]:35598 "EHLO mail-gx0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752337AbZFWAEI (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:04:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=A5iUnrV3QqCUWhLgCHTEX5o8ybbG2bMN06+3qrWm5jQKm4IA5xITgsLROEu3e2p7zQ gAhcpbAHpzpf8iPg/3SEcGch7vnd1z7Ebu5Ni/IfHOqVPrjZJWRmdz35N6PpbaJliWYh g6VndYAOmsz8EMb5aCSYZ1xoDfpZj+Si/U7tU= Message-ID: <4A401C19.8090102@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:41 -0600 From: Robert Hancock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Raz CC: Linux Kernel , kernelnewbies Subject: Re: Permission to use list.h and atomic.h in user space References: <5d96567b0906220510q32d0280diec9a2179ed37216e@mail.gmail.com> <20090622153701.1012ca3c@t61.ukuu.org.uk> <5d96567b0906220644p4c412163m26d7cb16e6e5c58d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5d96567b0906220644p4c412163m26d7cb16e6e5c58d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 19 On 06/22/2009 07:44 AM, Raz wrote: > Hello > May I have permission to use atomic64.h ,atomic32.h and list.h in a > proprietary software ? > I do not know who the authors are. > Thank you > Raz You would likely have to basically track down everyone who has ever contributed to those files and get their permission, which seems unlikely. So the short answer is almost certainly no. With newer gcc there are atomic built-in functions which will likely do what you want for the atomic ops at least.. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/