From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55290C64EB8 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:12:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256DA2086D for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:12:31 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 256DA2086D Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727483AbeJHQXL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2018 12:23:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44314 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726174AbeJHQXK (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2018 12:23:10 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A0A17109E; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (ovpn-200-21.brq.redhat.com [10.40.200.21]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9D78201B147; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 09:11:56 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 11:11:54 +0200 From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer To: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , davem@davemloft.net, acme@kernel.org, bjorn.topel@intel.com, jakub.kicinski@netronome.com, tgraf@suug.ch, wangnan0@huawei.com, colin.king@canonical.com, kraig@google.com, daniel.diaz@linaro.org, eric@regit.org, hekuang@huawei.com, jeremy@jcline.org, jolsa@kernel.org, joe@ovn.org, yamada.masahiro@socionext.com, mic@digikod.net, namhyung@kernel.org, ppenkov@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com, brouer@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense libbpf as LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause Message-ID: <20181008111154.170c56dd@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <7a8a3ccd-d78f-8e3d-4759-34297e8e5357@iogearbox.net> References: <20181005212416.2525992-1-ast@kernel.org> <7a8a3ccd-d78f-8e3d-4759-34297e8e5357@iogearbox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.25 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.38]); Mon, 08 Oct 2018 09:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:15:10 +0200 Daniel Borkmann wrote: > On 10/05/2018 11:24 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > libbpf is maturing as a library and gaining features that no other bpf libraries support > > (BPF Type Format, bpf to bpf calls, etc) > > Many Apache2 licensed projects (like bcc, bpftrace, gobpf, cilium, etc) > > would like to use libbpf, but cannot do this yet, since Apache Foundation explicitly > > states that LGPL is incompatible with Apache2. > > Hence let's relicense libbpf as dual license LGPL-2.1 or BSD-2-Clause, > > since BSD-2 is compatible with Apache2. > > Dual LGPL or Apache2 is invalid combination. > > Fix license mistake in Makefile as well. > > > > Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov > > Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov > > Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo > > Acked-by: Björn Töpel > > Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann > > Acked-by: David Beckett > > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski > > Acked-by: Joe Stringer > > Acked-by: John Fastabend > > Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau > > Acked-by: Quentin Monnet > > Acked-by: Thomas Graf > > Acked-by: Roman Gushchin > > Acked-by: Wang Nan > > Acked-by: Yonghong Song > > Applied to bpf-next, thanks! For the public record: Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer I do know, this ack will not reach the git-log, but given I have code in the lib, I want to show that I support and ack this re-license. -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer