Re: Request for contributor approval: Relicensing rseq selftests to MIT

[Peter Oskolkov]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:35 AM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

I have no issues with this. Let me know if you need anything more formal.

Thanks,
Peter

>
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       6  Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       5  Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       3  Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       3  Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>       2  Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Paul Burton <paulburton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Sabyasachi Gupta <sabyasachi.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Vincent Chen <vincent.chen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
>       1  Xingxing Su <suxingxing@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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
>
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> Mathieu Desnoyers
> EfficiOS Inc.
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