* libtraceevent license
@ 2019-10-07 17:46 Zavras, Alexios
2019-10-07 18:16 ` Greg KH
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From: Zavras, Alexios @ 2019-10-07 17:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Greg KH, linux-spdx
Hi Greg and fellow SPDX curators 😉
One of our developers came to me with a question/complaint:
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I'm trying to use libtraceevent -- a library for parsing Linux ring buffer format.
Source code is located in the Linux kernel repository at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/lib/traceevent
The thing confusing me is that almost all of the files are licensed LGPL-2.1
but the Makefiles and some .c files (some of the plugins of this library),
are licensed GPL-2.0.
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Checking the sources, I find three C files:
tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_cfg80211.c
tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_scsi.c
tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_xen.c
I see that the "GPL-2.0" SPDX tag was added in commit
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd
with the clear title:
"License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license"
(2017-11-01, by Greg).
Shame on the original contributors for not putting license info in their files...
but I am inclined to believe that they would have been meant to be LGPL,
as the rest of the library and the other plugins.
Could it be that the "everything without a license is GPL" rule
should have exempted libtraceevent?
More importantly, shall we update the three files to be "LGPL-2.1-only" ?
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* Re: libtraceevent license
2019-10-07 17:46 libtraceevent license Zavras, Alexios
@ 2019-10-07 18:16 ` Greg KH
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2019-10-07 18:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zavras, Alexios; +Cc: linux-spdx
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 05:46:58PM +0000, Zavras, Alexios wrote:
> Hi Greg and fellow SPDX curators 😉
>
> One of our developers came to me with a question/complaint:
>
> -----
> I'm trying to use libtraceevent -- a library for parsing Linux ring buffer format.
> Source code is located in the Linux kernel repository at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/tools/lib/traceevent
>
> The thing confusing me is that almost all of the files are licensed LGPL-2.1
> but the Makefiles and some .c files (some of the plugins of this library),
> are licensed GPL-2.0.
> -----
>
> Checking the sources, I find three C files:
>
> tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_cfg80211.c
> tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_scsi.c
> tools/lib/traceevent/plugins/plugin_xen.c
>
> I see that the "GPL-2.0" SPDX tag was added in commit
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd
> with the clear title:
> "License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license"
> (2017-11-01, by Greg).
>
> Shame on the original contributors for not putting license info in their files...
> but I am inclined to believe that they would have been meant to be LGPL,
> as the rest of the library and the other plugins.
> Could it be that the "everything without a license is GPL" rule
> should have exempted libtraceevent?
If you wish to have it changed, please talk to the owners of those files
and everyone who submitted patches to them.
> More importantly, shall we update the three files to be "LGPL-2.1-only" ?
Sorry, if a file did not have a license specified in it, then it fell
under the default license for the kernel.
thanks,
greg k-h
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