Acked-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@xxxxxxxxxx> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:12 PM Chenbo Feng <fengc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Acked-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc@xxxxxxxxxx> > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:10 PM Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 02:42, Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 02:06, <luca.boccassi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> >> From: Luca Boccassi <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> >> libbpf and bpftool have been dual-licensed to facilitate inclusion in >> >> software that is not compatible with GPL2-only (ie: Apache2), but the >> >> samples are still GPL2-only. >> >> >> >> Given these files are samples, they get naturally copied around. For example >> >> it is the case for samples/bpf/bpf_insn.h which was copied into the systemd >> >> tree: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/shared/linux/bpf_insn.h >> >> >> >> Dual-license this header as GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause to follow >> >> the same licensing used by libbpf and bpftool: >> >> >> >> 1bc38b8ff6cc ("libbpf: relicense libbpf as LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause") >> >> 907b22365115 ("tools: bpftool: dual license all files") >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> --- >> >> Most of systemd is (L)GPL2-or-later, which means there is no perceived >> >> incompatibility with Apache2 softwares and can thus be linked with >> >> OpenSSL 3.0. But given this GPL2-only header is included this is currently >> >> not possible. >> >> Dual-licensing this header solves this problem for us as we are scoping >> >> moving to OpenSSL 3.0, see: >> >> >> >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2021-September/046882.html >> >> >> >> The authors of this file according to git log are: >> >> >> >> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> > >> > Acked-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > >> >> Chenbo Feng <fengc@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Jiong Wang <jiong.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxx> >> >> Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> >> >> >> >> (excludes a commit adding the SPDX header) >> >> >> >> All authors and maintainers are CC'ed. An Acked-by from everyone in the >> >> above list of authors will be necessary. >> >> >> >> One could probably argue for relicensing all the samples/bpf/ files given both >> >> libbpf and bpftool are, however the authors list would be much larger and thus >> >> it would be much more difficult, so I'd really appreciate if this header could >> >> be handled first by itself, as it solves a real license incompatibility issue >> >> we are currently facing. >> >> >> >> samples/bpf/bpf_insn.h | 2 +- >> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> >> >> diff --git a/samples/bpf/bpf_insn.h b/samples/bpf/bpf_insn.h >> >> index aee04534483a..29c3bb6ad1cd 100644 >> >> --- a/samples/bpf/bpf_insn.h >> >> +++ b/samples/bpf/bpf_insn.h >> >> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ >> >> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ >> >> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause) */ >> >> /* eBPF instruction mini library */ >> >> #ifndef __BPF_INSN_H >> >> #define __BPF_INSN_H >> >> -- >> >> 2.33.0 >> >> >> >> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxx>
