[ltt-dev] Dual-licensing LTTng, marker and tracepoints under GPLv2+/LGPLv2.1+

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj at krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We want to re-license LTTng as
> 
>   dual-license GPLv2 (or better)/LGPLv2.1 (or better)
> 
> to facilitate code exchange between the GPLv2 LTTng kernel tracer 
> and LGPLv2.1 userspace LTTng tracing library.  This will also 
> include kernel/marker.c, include/linux/marker.h, 
> kernel/tracepoint.c and include/linux/tracepoint.h. For the LTTng 
> tree, everything under the ltt/ subdirectory is targeted.
> 
> I am the main author of most of these files, and I allow such 
> license change as far as my code is concerned. Additionally, we 
> need the approval of most people who contributed code to either 
> LTTng, Linux Kernel Marker and Tracepoints.

Why dont you license the user-space library under the GPLv2?

Also, i dont agree that such interfaces should be ABIs, hence i 
oppose the librarization of such raw kernel interfaces. For example 
markers will be removed in the future, and tracepoints will sure 
undergo more corrective iterations as well.

	Ingo