On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:15:10 +0200 Daniel Borkmann <dan...@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 <a...@kernel.org> > > Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <r...@fb.com> > > Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> > > Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.to...@intel.com> > > Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> > > Acked-by: David Beckett <david.beck...@netronome.com> > > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> > > Acked-by: Joe Stringer <j...@ovn.org> > > Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com> > > Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.mon...@netronome.com> > > Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tg...@suug.ch> > > Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <g...@fb.com> > > Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> > > Acked-by: Yonghong Song <y...@fb.com> > > Applied to bpf-next, thanks! For the public record: Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <bro...@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
