Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Oct 2018 11:11:54 +0200 | From | Jesper Dangaard Brouer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense libbpf as LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause |
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On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:15:10 +0200 Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> 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 <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!
For the public record: Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
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
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