netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h
       [not found] <20190816054543.2215626-1-andriin@fb.com>
@ 2019-08-16 12:10 ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  2019-08-16 15:29   ` Daniel Borkmann
  2019-08-17 21:30 ` Daniel Borkmann
  2019-08-19 17:27 ` Naveen N. Rao
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2019-08-16 12:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrii Nakryiko
  Cc: brouer, bpf, netdev, andrii.nakryiko, kernel-team,
	Michael Holzheu, Naveen N . Rao, David S . Miller,
	Michal Rostecki, John Fastabend, Sargun Dhillon

On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:45:43 -0700
Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> wrote:

> bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h contain useful macros and BPF helper
> definitions essential to almost every BPF program. Which makes them
> useful not just for selftests. To be able to expose them as part of
> libbpf, though, we need them to be dual-licensed as LGPL-2.1 OR
> BSD-2-Clause. This patch updates licensing of those two files.

I've already ACKed this, and is fine with (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause).

I just want to understand, why "BSD-2-Clause" and not "Apache-2.0" ?

The original argument was that this needed to be compatible with
"Apache-2.0", then why not simply add this in the "OR" ?

> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Hechao Li <hechaol@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Adam Barth <arb@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>

Confirming I acked this.

> Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
> Acked-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> Acked-by: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
> Acked-by: Teng Qin <palmtenor@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Michal Rostecki <mrostecki@opensuse.org>
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h  | 2 +-
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h
> index 05f036df8a4c..ff3593b0ae03 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
>  #ifndef __BPF_ENDIAN__
>  #define __BPF_ENDIAN__
>  
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
> index 8b503ea142f0..6c4930bc6e2e 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
>  #ifndef __BPF_HELPERS_H
>  #define __BPF_HELPERS_H
>  



-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h
  2019-08-16 12:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h Jesper Dangaard Brouer
@ 2019-08-16 15:29   ` Daniel Borkmann
  2019-08-16 17:15     ` Greg KH
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Borkmann @ 2019-08-16 15:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jesper Dangaard Brouer, Andrii Nakryiko
  Cc: bpf, netdev, andrii.nakryiko, kernel-team, Michael Holzheu,
	Naveen N . Rao, David S . Miller, Michal Rostecki,
	John Fastabend, Sargun Dhillon

On 8/16/19 2:10 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:45:43 -0700
> Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> wrote:
> 
>> bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h contain useful macros and BPF helper
>> definitions essential to almost every BPF program. Which makes them
>> useful not just for selftests. To be able to expose them as part of
>> libbpf, though, we need them to be dual-licensed as LGPL-2.1 OR
>> BSD-2-Clause. This patch updates licensing of those two files.
> 
> I've already ACKed this, and is fine with (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause).
> 
> I just want to understand, why "BSD-2-Clause" and not "Apache-2.0" ?
> 
> The original argument was that this needed to be compatible with
> "Apache-2.0", then why not simply add this in the "OR" ?

It's use is discouraged in the kernel tree, see also LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0 (below) and
statement wrt compatibility from https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html:

   Valid-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
   SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html
   Usage-Guide:
     Do NOT use. The Apache-2.0 is not GPL2 compatible. [...]

>> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
>> Acked-by: Hechao Li <hechaol@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Adam Barth <arb@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
>> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
>> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
>> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
>> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
> 
> Confirming I acked this.
> 
>> Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
>> Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
>> Acked-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
>> Acked-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
>> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
>> Acked-by: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
>> Acked-by: Teng Qin <palmtenor@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
>> Cc: Michal Rostecki <mrostecki@opensuse.org>
>> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
>> ---
>>   tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h  | 2 +-
>>   tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h | 2 +-
>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h
>> index 05f036df8a4c..ff3593b0ae03 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_endian.h
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
>>   #ifndef __BPF_ENDIAN__
>>   #define __BPF_ENDIAN__
>>   
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
>> index 8b503ea142f0..6c4930bc6e2e 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause) */
>>   #ifndef __BPF_HELPERS_H
>>   #define __BPF_HELPERS_H
>>   
> 
> 
> 


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h
  2019-08-16 15:29   ` Daniel Borkmann
@ 2019-08-16 17:15     ` Greg KH
  2019-08-16 20:10       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2019-08-16 17:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Borkmann, Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  Cc: Andrii Nakryiko, bpf, netdev, andrii.nakryiko, kernel-team,
	Michael Holzheu, Naveen N . Rao, David S . Miller,
	Michal Rostecki, John Fastabend, Sargun Dhillon

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 05:29:27PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 8/16/19 2:10 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:45:43 -0700
> > Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h contain useful macros and BPF helper
> > > definitions essential to almost every BPF program. Which makes them
> > > useful not just for selftests. To be able to expose them as part of
> > > libbpf, though, we need them to be dual-licensed as LGPL-2.1 OR
> > > BSD-2-Clause. This patch updates licensing of those two files.
> > 
> > I've already ACKed this, and is fine with (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause).
> > 
> > I just want to understand, why "BSD-2-Clause" and not "Apache-2.0" ?
> > 
> > The original argument was that this needed to be compatible with
> > "Apache-2.0", then why not simply add this in the "OR" ?
> 
> It's use is discouraged in the kernel tree, see also LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0 (below) and
> statement wrt compatibility from https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html:
> 
>   Valid-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
>   SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html
>   Usage-Guide:
>     Do NOT use. The Apache-2.0 is not GPL2 compatible. [...]

That is correct, don't use Apache-2 code in the kernel please.  Even as
a dual-license, it's a total mess.

Having this be BSD-2 is actually better, as it should be fine to use
with Apache 2 code, right?

Jesper, do you know of any license that BSD-2 is not compatible with
that is needed?

thanks,

greg k-h

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h
  2019-08-16 17:15     ` Greg KH
@ 2019-08-16 20:10       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer @ 2019-08-16 20:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg KH
  Cc: Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, bpf, netdev, andrii.nakryiko,
	kernel-team, Michael Holzheu, Naveen N . Rao, David S . Miller,
	Michal Rostecki, John Fastabend, Sargun Dhillon, brouer

On Fri, 16 Aug 2019 19:15:29 +0200
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 05:29:27PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> > On 8/16/19 2:10 PM, Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:  
> > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:45:43 -0700
> > > Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h contain useful macros and BPF helper
> > > > definitions essential to almost every BPF program. Which makes them
> > > > useful not just for selftests. To be able to expose them as part of
> > > > libbpf, though, we need them to be dual-licensed as LGPL-2.1 OR
> > > > BSD-2-Clause. This patch updates licensing of those two files.  
> > > 
> > > I've already ACKed this, and is fine with (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause).
> > > 
> > > I just want to understand, why "BSD-2-Clause" and not "Apache-2.0" ?
> > > 
> > > The original argument was that this needed to be compatible with
> > > "Apache-2.0", then why not simply add this in the "OR" ?  
> > 
> > It's use is discouraged in the kernel tree, see also LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0 (below) and
> > statement wrt compatibility from https://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html:
> > 
> >   Valid-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
> >   SPDX-URL: https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html
> >   Usage-Guide:
> >     Do NOT use. The Apache-2.0 is not GPL2 compatible. [...]  

You didn't quote the continuation from LICENSES/dual/Apache-2.0

Usage-Guide:
  Do NOT use. The Apache-2.0 is not GPL2 compatible. It may only be used
  for dual-licensed files where the other license is GPL2 compatible.
  If you end up using this it MUST be used together with a GPL2 compatible
  license using "OR".

The way I read it, is that you can use it with "OR", like:
 SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0

> That is correct, don't use Apache-2 code in the kernel please.  Even as
> a dual-license, it's a total mess.

Good, I just wanted to understand why.  

> Having this be BSD-2 is actually better, as it should be fine to use
> with Apache 2 code, right?

Yes, that is also my understanding. And it better be as this is needed,
as we want libbpf to be used by https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/ which
is Apache-2.0.

> Jesper, do you know of any license that BSD-2 is not compatible with
> that is needed?

No.

-- 
Best regards,
  Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat
  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h
       [not found] <20190816054543.2215626-1-andriin@fb.com>
  2019-08-16 12:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h Jesper Dangaard Brouer
@ 2019-08-17 21:30 ` Daniel Borkmann
  2019-08-19 17:27 ` Naveen N. Rao
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Borkmann @ 2019-08-17 21:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrii Nakryiko, bpf, netdev
  Cc: andrii.nakryiko, kernel-team, Michael Holzheu, Naveen N . Rao,
	David S . Miller, Michal Rostecki, John Fastabend,
	Sargun Dhillon

On 8/16/19 7:45 AM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h contain useful macros and BPF helper
> definitions essential to almost every BPF program. Which makes them
> useful not just for selftests. To be able to expose them as part of
> libbpf, though, we need them to be dual-licensed as LGPL-2.1 OR
> BSD-2-Clause. This patch updates licensing of those two files.
> 
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Hechao Li <hechaol@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Lawrence Brakmo <brakmo@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Adam Barth <arb@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
> Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
> Acked-by: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@collabora.com>
> Acked-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com>
> Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> Acked-by: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
> Acked-by: Teng Qin <palmtenor@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Michal Rostecki <mrostecki@opensuse.org>
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>

Applied, thanks!

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

* Re: [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h
       [not found] <20190816054543.2215626-1-andriin@fb.com>
  2019-08-16 12:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h Jesper Dangaard Brouer
  2019-08-17 21:30 ` Daniel Borkmann
@ 2019-08-19 17:27 ` Naveen N. Rao
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Naveen N. Rao @ 2019-08-19 17:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrii Nakryiko, bpf, netdev
  Cc: andrii.nakryiko, David S . Miller, Michael Holzheu,
	John Fastabend, kernel-team, Michal Rostecki, Sargun Dhillon

Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h contain useful macros and BPF helper
> definitions essential to almost every BPF program. Which makes them
> useful not just for selftests. To be able to expose them as part of
> libbpf, though, we need them to be dual-licensed as LGPL-2.1 OR
> BSD-2-Clause. This patch updates licensing of those two files.

Quite late, but FWIW:
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


- Naveen


^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 6+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2019-08-19 17:27 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
     [not found] <20190816054543.2215626-1-andriin@fb.com>
2019-08-16 12:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next] libbpf: relicense bpf_helpers.h and bpf_endian.h Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-08-16 15:29   ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-08-16 17:15     ` Greg KH
2019-08-16 20:10       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2019-08-17 21:30 ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-08-19 17:27 ` Naveen N. Rao

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).