Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense libbpf as LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 04:15:36 EST


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 <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: BjÃrn TÃpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: David Beckett <david.beckett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>

Applied to bpf-next, thanks!