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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:10:26 +0900
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Subject: Re: Relicensing tracepoints and markers to Dual LGPL v2.1/GPL 
	v2,headers to Dual BSD/GPL
From: GeunSik Lim <leemgs1@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> Yes, the legality of such relicensing is questionable as that code was
> never developed outside of the kernel but as part of the kernel.
>
> But i also disagree with it on a technical level: code duplication is
> _bad_. Why does the code have to be duplicated in user-space like that?
> I'd like Linux tracing code to be in the kernel repo. Why isnt this done
> properly, as part of the kernel project - to make sure it all stays in
> sync?
It's right. I am not a special  lawyer about license issues currently.
But, Consider GPL v2 license with philosophical view. I think that this
re-licensing have a some problems in Linux kernel(GPL v2) at least.
> So for those two grounds i cannot give my permission for this
> relicensing, sorry.
I agree with your opinion.
>        Ingo
>


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