On Thu, 2021-09-23 at 01:05 +0100, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote: > From: Luca Boccassi > > 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 > --- > 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 > Björn Töpel > Brendan Jackman > Chenbo Feng > Daniel Borkmann > Daniel Mack > Jakub Kicinski > Jiong Wang > Joe Stringer > Josef Bacik > > (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 Got "address not found" for the following: Björn Töpel Jakub Kicinski Jiong Wang Trying again with different aliases from more recent commits for Björn and Jakub. I cannot find other commits from Jiong with a different email address - Jakub, do you happen to know how we can reach Jiong? Perhaps it's not necessary as it's Netronome that owns the copyright and thus your ack would cover both contributions? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi