From: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/6] stdlib: Optimization qsort{_r} swap implementation
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:07:55 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb552815-c2ec-fd58-e91d-bf77117b6410@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38f59f55-13a4-1a5a-9ba1-34c6ed70d964@cs.ucla.edu>
On 17/07/23 14:29, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.
I am not sure in fact, my take was the code as simple enough to have this
concern. But if it were case, I can reimplement it different to avoid this
issue.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-17 18:08 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
2023-07-17 18:07 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto [this message]
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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