On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 10:01:50PM +0200, Andreas Pretzsch wrote: > One of the changes 3.4.0 -> 3.5.0 was to add SPDX tags all > across the source files. They are now tagged as LGPL-2.1-only. > > The lib code itself had written LGPL-2.1-only headers already, > as did most of the commandline tools (src/nf-* and src/nl-*). > Very few of the cli tools have written GPL-2.0-only headers > even now, but the LGPL-2.1-only SPDX tag was added there also. > But given the use of those cli tools, and the meaning of LGPL > for regular executables, they are probably fine as LGPL, too. > > For details, see https://github.com/thom311/libnl/pull/219 > It was accepted mainline as commit cee0b1b 'Add SPDX identifiers'. > > Therefore update the license tag in the rule to follow mainline. > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Pretzsch <[email protected]> > --- > rules/libnl3.make | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/rules/libnl3.make b/rules/libnl3.make > index 153c7b80e..5b3af0065 100644 > --- a/rules/libnl3.make > +++ b/rules/libnl3.make > @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ LIBNL3_SUFFIX := tar.gz > LIBNL3_URL := > https://github.com/thom311/libnl/releases/download/$(LIBNL3_RELEASE)/$(LIBNL3).$(LIBNL3_SUFFIX) > LIBNL3_SOURCE := $(SRCDIR)/$(LIBNL3).$(LIBNL3_SUFFIX) > LIBNL3_DIR := $(BUILDDIR)/$(LIBNL3) > -LIBNL3_LICENSE := GPL-2.0-only > +LIBNL3_LICENSE := LGPL-2.1-only
It's also a good idea to add LIBNL3_LICENSE_FILES := file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c so we get a hint where the license is and when it changes again. I threw licensecheck [1] at the code. There a few files which have comments identifying them as GPL-2.0-only, but also now have a "SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-only" tag: ./src/idiag-socket-details.c GPL (v2) ./src/nl-addr-add.c GPL (v2) ./src/nl-addr-delete.c GPL (v2) ./src/nl-addr-list.c GPL (v2) ./src/nl-cls-add.c GPL (v2) as well as several files in ./include/linux-private/linux/, which are GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note or GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note (obviously copied from the kernel, although I don't understand why). ./lib/xfrm and ./include/netlink/ are BSD-3-Clause. So I guess until we can argue that those files don't make it into a compiled binary, the license statement should be LGPL-2.1-only AND GPL-2.0-only AND GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note and GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note and BSD-3-Clause. [1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Licensecheck - Roland -- Roland Hieber | [email protected] | Pengutronix e.K. | https://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim | Phone: +49-5121-206917-5086 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
