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Thomas Gleixner 64cf548126 tools: bpftool: Cleanup license mess
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.

Digging deeper: The files were imported from the iproute2 repository with
the GPL V2 or later boiler plate text in commit b66e907cfe ("tools:
bpftool: copy JSON writer from iproute2 repository")

Looking at the iproute2 repository at

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git

the following commit is the equivivalent:

  commit d9d8c839 ("json_writer: add SPDX Identifier (GPL-2/BSD-2)")

That commit explicitly removes the boiler plate and relicenses the code
uner GPL-2.0-only and BSD-2-Clause. As Steven wrote the original code and
also the relicensing commit, it's assumed that the relicensing was intended
to do exaclty that. Just the kernel side update failed to remove the boiler
plate. Do so now.

Fixes: 907b223651 ("tools: bpftool: dual license all files")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Cc: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
Cc: David Calavera <david.calavera@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Cc: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@stanford.edu>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
CC: okash.khawaja@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2019-01-18 15:26:54 -08:00
arch ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
block block: fix kerneldoc comment for blk_attempt_plug_merge() 2019-01-09 15:29:08 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-16 05:13:36 +12:00
drivers Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-16 05:13:36 +12:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs for-5.0-rc1-tag 2019-01-14 05:55:51 +12:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-16 05:13:36 +12:00
init jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: fix inner map masking to prevent oob under speculation 2019-01-18 15:19:56 -08:00
lib sbitmap: Protect swap_lock from hardirq 2019-01-15 16:29:57 +12:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm/mmu_notifier: mm/rmap.c: Fix a mmu_notifier range bug in try_to_unmap_one 2019-01-10 02:58:21 -08:00
net bpf: fix SO_MAX_PACING_RATE to support TCP internal pacing 2019-01-18 00:30:34 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: workaround clang asm goto compilation errors 2019-01-15 20:57:30 +01:00
scripts remove dma_zalloc_coherent 2019-01-12 10:52:40 -08:00
security Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
sound remove dma_zalloc_coherent 2019-01-12 10:52:40 -08:00
tools tools: bpftool: Cleanup license mess 2019-01-18 15:26:54 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
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.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 05:49:35 +12:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 10:41:12 +12:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.