netdev - Re: [patch 8/9] tools: bpftool: Cleanup license mess

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1901180056570.1647@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:00:30 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        David Calavera <david.calavera@...il.com>,
        Andrey Ignatov <rdna@...com>, Joe Stringer <joe@...d.net.nz>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        Petar Penkov <ppenkov@...nford.edu>,
        Sandipan Das <sandipan@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@....ntt.co.jp>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@...il.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>,
        okash.khawaja@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 8/9] tools: bpftool: Cleanup license mess

On Thu, 17 Jan 2019, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:14:24 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Precise and non-ambiguous license information is important. The recent
> > relicensing of the bpftools introduced a license conflict.
> > 
> > The files have now:
> > 
> >      SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR BSD-2-Clause
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >      * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> >      * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> >      * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
> >      * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version
> > 
> > Amazingly about 20 people acked that change and neither they nor the
> > committer noticed. Oh well.
> 
> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> 
> Sorry about that!  
> 
> These files as you found out are from Stephen, so we probably don't
> need the full litany of acks.

I agree. I cc'ed everyone just to make them aware that licensing is not
just an annoyance. It's a important part of the project and it has legal
implications - in the worst case on the personal level. We already have an
unholy mess in that area, so we really need everybody to take it serious.

Thanks,

	tglx