| 1 | Mathieu Desnoyers |
| 2 | May 13th, 2009 |
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| 4 | IBM Corporation allowed LGPLv2.1+ licensing of their contribution to the |
| 5 | userspace RCU library in a patch submitted on May 8, 2009 from Paul E. |
| 6 | McKenney and reviewed by Steven L. Bennett: |
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| 8 | http://lists.casi.polymtl.ca/pipermail/ltt-dev/2009-May/001584.html |
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| 10 | I (Mathieu Desnoyers) re-implemented ACCESS_ONCE(), likely(), unlikely() and |
| 11 | barrier() from scratch without reference to the original code. |
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| 13 | commit id : 2dc5fa0f7cfbfb0a64a7a67b39626650e863f16a |
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| 15 | Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> approved LGPL relicensing of his |
| 16 | patch in an email dated May 13, 2009 : |
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| 18 | http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/13/16 |
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| 20 | xchg() primitives has been rewritten from a MIT-licensed cmpxchg for Intel |
| 21 | and powerpc. They are MIT-licensed and therefore usable in LGPL code. |
| 22 | This cmpxchg code was obtained from the atomic_ops project: |
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| 24 | http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/ |
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| 26 | I (Mathieu Desnoyers) wrote the remainder of the code. |
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| 28 | The license for the library files in this project was therefore changed to |
| 29 | LGPLv2.1 on May 13, 2009, as detailed in LICENSE. |