On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:15:10 +0200 Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Björn Töpel <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: David Beckett <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: John Fastabend <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Thomas Graf <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Yonghong Song <[email protected]> > > Applied to bpf-next, thanks! For the public record: Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <[email protected]> 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
