[ltt-dev] [RFC] URCU concurrent data structure API

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Wed Aug 17 18:12:39 EDT 2011


On 08/17/2011 11:56 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >  Shipping it as a .c file rather than a library (like gnulib) might also
> >  be a good way.  Churn in this kind of code is actually a bad thing.
>
> Shipping a .c will not be practical for non-gpl and non-lgpl
> applications, at the very least, and will make library upgrades a real
> challenge. Hence my preference for a .so.

Yes, a .c pretty much requires a special exception to the GPL, or to 
give up copyleft.

Paolo





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