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Bug#896165: linux: request packaging of bpftool



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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