Mathieu Desnoyers May 13th, 2009
IBM Corporation allowed LGPLv2.1+ licensing of their contribution to the userspace RCU library in a patch submitted on May 8, 2009 from Paul E. McKenney and reviewed by Steven L. Bennett:
https://lists.lttng.org/pipermail/lttng-dev/2009-May/012835.html
I (Mathieu Desnoyers) re-implemented ACCESS_ONCE(), likely(), unlikely() and barrier() from scratch without reference to the original code.
commit id : 2dc5fa0f7cfbfb0a64a7a67b39626650e863f16a
Bert Wesarg [email protected] approved LGPL re-licensing of his patch in an email dated May 13, 2009 :
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/13/16
xchg() primitives has been rewritten from a MIT-licensed cmpxchg for Intel and powerpc. They are MIT-licensed and therefore usable in LGPL code. This cmpxchg code was obtained from the atomic_ops project:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/
I (Mathieu Desnoyers) wrote the remainder of the code.
The license for the library files in this project was therefore changed to LGPLv2.1 on May 13, 2009, as detailed in LICENSE.