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Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:50:17AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > Please see https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/merge_requests/72
> > 
> > Ugh. We cannot currently package bpftool in Debian. There are several
> > GPLv2-only files in its source tree, and it links unconditionally
> > against the GPLv3 libbfd. :(
> 
> If we relicense the GPLv2-only files to be GPLv2-only OR BSD-2-Clause
> - like the majority of bpftool sources - would that work?
> 
> I wanted to make sure GPLv2-only + BSD-2-Clause will satisfy the
> license requirement when linking against libbfd, before I start chasing
> people for acks on the relicense :)

Yes, the BSD 2-clause license is OK. GPLv2 or greater would be OK, too.
It's really just GPLv2-only in this case that's causing the problem.

noah

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Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> - 2018-04-20 14:30 +0200
  Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Robert Haist <rhaist@mailbox.org> - 2018-10-24 16:00 +0200
  Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2018-11-15 06:30 +0100
  Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2018-11-20 09:00 +0100
    Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Vincent Blut <vincent.debian@free.fr> - 2018-11-20 12:50 +0100
    Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2018-11-21 06:40 +0100
      Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> - 2018-11-27 19:00 +0100
        Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> - 2018-11-29 05:00 +0100
          Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> - 2018-12-14 11:20 +0100
            Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Simon Bernard <contact@simonbernard.eu> - 2019-01-25 18:50 +0100
            Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Simon Horman <simon.horman@netronome.com> - 2019-04-15 16:50 +0200
              Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> - 2019-07-10 19:40 +0200
  Bug#896165: ITP: bpftool -- utility for querying and updating BPF objects Christian Barcenas <christian@cbarcenas.com> - 2020-03-22 05:50 +0100
  Processed (with 1 error): ITP: bpftool -- utility for querying  and updating BPF objects "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-03-22 05:50 +0100

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