Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense libbpf as LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause | From | Daniel Borkmann <> | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:15:10 +0200 |
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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 <ast@kernel.org> > Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> > Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> > Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com> > Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> > Acked-by: David Beckett <david.beckett@netronome.com> > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> > Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org> > Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> > Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> > Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> > Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> > Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> > Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> > Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Applied to bpf-next, thanks!
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