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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>,
	Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:29:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38f59f55-13a4-1a5a-9ba1-34c6ed70d964@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49920fe1-b5a1-939c-9d34-bd553cd4352e@ispras.ru>

On 2023-07-17 09:57, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> I'd recommend to properly credit Linux lib/sort.c since obviously this
> commit originated as a direct copy of the code therein, not just being
> inspired by what's there.

What are the licensing issues here? The Linux kernel is GPLv2 only, 
whereas glibc/stdlib/qsort.c is LGPLv2.1+, so we can't simply take 
nontrivial source code from the Linux kernel.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-17 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-13 13:25 [PATCH v5 0/6] Use introsort for qsort Adhemerval Zanella
2023-07-13 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 1/6] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2023-07-13 22:17   ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-14  1:01     ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-14 12:06       ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-07-17 16:57   ` Alexander Monakov
2023-07-17 17:29     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2023-07-17 18:07       ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-07-17 18:58         ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-17 19:06           ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-07-18 14:01     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-07-18 14:13       ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-07-13 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 2/6] stdlib: Move insertion sort out qsort Adhemerval Zanella
2023-07-13 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 3/6] stdlib: qsort: Move some macros to inline function Adhemerval Zanella
2023-07-13 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 4/6] stdlib: Implement introsort with qsort (BZ 19305) Adhemerval Zanella
2023-07-13 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 5/6] stdlib: Remove use of mergesort on qsort (BZ 21719) Adhemerval Zanella
2023-07-13 13:25 ` [PATCH v5 6/6] stdlib: Add more qsort{_r} coverage Adhemerval Zanella

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