From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk (cavan.codon.org.uk [176.126.240.207]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6D8573C47E for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=176.126.240.207 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708504057; cv=none; b=ixzSs0aNtStT6+xFdxyjUc1g4Ox89+RiVtrkFWPdHVHzP0DHA0/6Nbhc4ikT82CrE6gN9M1nKNxR55I49MSbJ6MaP+LZWuGO4Wd+ZArflbf4cljdkFOmuU+DJVhDCg6lFAm23WYAx3Tmpq+FmzuoAGTUsGm7l9B7fFkOB61S3gg= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1708504057; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ffO6P+jAfnU6vI42j/iJ8WCQrnm5queApNT736xN67c=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=MOPfiwiYcw81V5zJwOfswMZ32nFePfxfB+bQBBDwyY6hAH7qyCRtVSVuiSNJW5y2O/DMYzLW+2Y+MonICARW3MnKuMIRHKN8kA70dIPrw4ToJMQgUlqsPHxSQyw+GG7+FMCnPqPqJYCA54XlFSiSzu2DIT0aeBxiqJRpcH9xXuo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=srcf.ucam.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=codon.org.uk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=176.126.240.207 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=srcf.ucam.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=codon.org.uk Received: by cavan.codon.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2B06E40691; Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:18:40 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 08:18:40 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Dmitry Kasatkin Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, a.mardegan@omp.ru, git@andred.net, dbaryshkov@gmail.com, ebiggers@google.com, sorenson@redhat.com, gcwilson@linux.ibm.com, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, kgoldman@us.ibm.com, zohar@linux.ibm.com, patrick.ohly@intel.com, patrick@puiterwijk.org, petr.vorel@gmail.com, roberto.sassu@huawei.com, stefanb@linux.ibm.com, stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com, tianjia.zhang@linux.alibaba.com, vt@altlinux.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, z.jasinski@samsung.com Subject: Re: [ima-evm-utils: PATCH v1 1/1] Change license to LGPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-2.0-or-later Message-ID: References: <9205ed32da8814d8c4d9bde5a03d92c7588f1d9a.1708503094.git.dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9205ed32da8814d8c4d9bde5a03d92c7588f1d9a.1708503094.git.dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:11:34AM +0200, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote: > Currently libimaevm provided by this project is used by the tool evmctl, > which is also provided by this project. > > An issue was reported about using libimaevm with other software. Its > GPL2-only license makes it incompatible to use with other licenses, in > particular GPL3-only. > > To address this issue, change the project license to GPL-2.0-or-later > and libimaevm to LGPL 2.0 or later. I'm completely supportive of this, but do you need explicit permission from every copyright holder? I don't think I have any code in the library, but if I did it probably technically belongs to a former employer and I'd need to figure out who's still employed in the relevant office to get them to agree.