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. noah
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