On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:49:50PM -0800, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:50:17AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > > Please see https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/72
> > >
> > > Ugh. We cannot currently package bpftool in Debian. There are several
> > > GPLv2-only files in its source tree, and it links unconditionally
> > > against the GPLv3 libbfd. :(
> >
> > If we relicense the GPLv2-only files to be GPLv2-only OR BSD-2-Clause
> > - like the majority of bpftool sources - would that work?
> >
> > I wanted to make sure GPLv2-only + BSD-2-Clause will satisfy the
> > license requirement when linking against libbfd, before I start chasing
> > people for acks on the relicense :)
>
> Yes, the BSD 2-clause license is OK. GPLv2 or greater would be OK, too.
> It's really just GPLv2-only in this case that's causing the problem.
Hi,
the following merge-commit, which has been accepted into bpf-next
for inclusion in v4.21, addresses the problem raised above by
clarifying that the licence of bpftool is GPLv2-only + BSD-2-Clause.
commit 00842be52f2015c3c1028e16b565f325f4ca20fc
Merge: 8f9a8a619311 907b22365115
Author: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
Date: Thu Dec 13 12:08:45 2018 +0100
Merge branch 'bpf-bpftool-license-update'
Jakub Kicinski says:
====================
We are changing/clarifying the license on bpftool to GPLv2-only +
BSD-2-Clause for all files. Current license mix is incompatible
with libbfd (which is GPLv3-only) and therefore Debian maintainers
are apprehensive about packaging bpftool.
Acks include authors of code which has been copied into bpftool (e.g.
JSON writer from iproute2, code from tools/bpf, code from BPF samples
and selftests, etc.)
Thanks again to all the authors who acked the change!
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Acked-by: YueHaibing <yuehaib...@huawei.com>
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Acked-by: Sean Young <s...@mess.org>
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Acked-by: Petar Penkov <ppen...@stanford.edu>
Acked-by: Sandipan Das <sandi...@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant...@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Taeung Song <treeze.tae...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net>
