libbpf is maturing as a library and gaining features that no other bpf libraries support
(BPF Type Format, bpf to bpf calls, etc)
Many Apache2 licensed projects (like bcc, bpftrace, gobpf, cilium, etc)
would like to use libbpf, but cannot do this yet, since Apache Foundation explicitly
states that LGPL is incompatible with Apache2.
Hence let's relicense libbpf as dual license LGPL-2.1 or BSD-2-Clause,
since BSD-2 is compatible with Apache2.
Dual LGPL or Apache2 is invalid combination.
Fix license mistake in Makefile as well.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: David Beckett <david.beckett@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@ovn.org>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
libbpf is used more and more outside kernel tree. That means the library
should follow good practices in library design and implementation to
play well with third party code that uses it.
One of such practices is to have a common prefix (or a few) for every
interface, function or data structure, library provides. I helps to
avoid name conflicts with other libraries and keeps API consistent.
Inconsistent names in libbpf already cause problems in real life. E.g.
an application can't use both libbpf and libnl due to conflicting
symbols.
Having common prefix will help to fix current and avoid future problems.
libbpf already uses the following prefixes for its interfaces:
* bpf_ for bpf system call wrappers, program/map/elf-object
abstractions and a few other things;
* btf_ for BTF related API;
* libbpf_ for everything else.
The patch renames function in str_error.h to have libbpf_ prefix since it
misses one and doesn't fit well into the first two categories.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Same problem that got fixed in a similar fashion in tools/perf/ in
c8b5f2c96d ("tools: Introduce str_error_r()"), fix it in the same
way, licensing needs to be sorted out to libbpf to use libapi, so,
for this simple case, just get the same wrapper in tools/lib/bpf.
This makes libbpf and its users (bpftool, selftests, perf) to build
again in Alpine Linux 3.[45678] and edge.
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Fixes: 1ce6a9fc15 ("bpf: fix build error in libbpf with EXTRA_CFLAGS="-Wp, -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2"")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917151636.GA21790@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
