[PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: Add SPDX identifier to btf-dump-file output

From: Daniel Xu
Date: Sun Mar 13 2022 - 19:01:50 EST


A concern about potential GPL violations came up at the new $DAYJOB when
I tried to vendor the vmlinux.h output. The central point was that the
generated vmlinux.h does not embed a license string -- making the
licensing of the file non-obvious.

This commit adds a LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause SPDX license identifier to
the generated vmlinux.h output. This is line with what bpftool generates
in object file skeletons.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
index a2c665beda87..fca810a27768 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/btf.c
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ static int dump_btf_c(const struct btf *btf,
if (err)
return err;

+ printf("/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */\n\n");
printf("#ifndef __VMLINUX_H__\n");
printf("#define __VMLINUX_H__\n");
printf("\n");
--
2.35.1