[gst-devel] Re: [Fwd: Permission to use atomic code under LGPL]

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Hi Ralf,
Thanks for the permission and thanks for the generous offer of reviewing
our atmoic MIPS code, we might just take you up on that sometime ;)

Sincerely,
Christian

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 00:51, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Please feel free to publish the MIPS <asm/atomic.h> files under the LGPL.
> On the technical side - there is a bunch of issues with the use of atomic.h
> in usespace on MIPS, so just in case you need somebody to review your
> variant of it feel free to mailbomb me with code.
> 
>   Ralf
> 
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:12:57PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Subject: [Fwd: Permission to use atomic code under LGPL]
> > From:	Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta.com>, ralf at gnu.org
> > Content-Type: text/plain
> > Date:	04 Feb 2003 23:12:57 +0000
> > 
> > I know Linus will have missed this on the list (welcome back btw I hope 
> > the rest of .au was fun). Also Ralf I believe the mips ones are yours.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > 
> > > From: Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus at linuxrising.org>
> > > To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> > > Subject: Permission to use atomic code under LGPL
> > > Date: 28 Jan 2003 18:52:42 +0100
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I am with the GStreamer project (www.gstreamer.net). We did a small
> > > license audit the other day and discovered we included some code from
> > > the kernel. GStreamer uses the LGPL so this is a problem for us. 
> > > 
> > > The code in question is the atomic code and is included in our
> > > sourcefile below. Do the person(s) in question responsible for this code
> > > mind if we re-license it under the LGPL? 
> > > 
> > > We will of course add comments in the code stating its origin with
> > > copyrights etc.
> > > 
> > > I am not subscribed to the list so if anyone has objections to this
> > > relicensing of this particular piece of code, please CC me any
> > > responses.
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Christian
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus at linuxrising.org>
> > -- 
> > Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> 
>   Ralf
-- 
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus at linuxrising.org>