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Netlink Library Suite
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idiag: "fix" license for "idiag-socket-details" tool #354

Closed thom311 closed 1 year ago

thom311 commented 1 year ago

This tool had a GPL-2.0-only license text when it was added. That is not what we expect for libnl3 contributions.

Since being added, the file was only touched by me (Thomas Haller) and Yegor Yefremov. Yegor only added a SPDX license identifier and I am fine that all my (trivial) changes to the file are LGPL-2.0-only compatible.

This leaves only Joe Damato, who initially contributed the file. Joe agrees with this adjustment of the license.

Note that there is also a line:

   Copyright (c) 2013 Sassano Systems LLC <joe@sassanosystems.com>

I don't know what Sassano Systems says about this. The file seems small enough, to justify this change. It was always a "honest mistake".

The alternative would be to delete the file, which is probably in nobody's interest.

Fixes: c97c8c2bfdb0 ('Add idiag-socket-details')

ice799 commented 1 year ago

This change is fine with me. For what it's worth, Sassano Systems was my LLC that I wholly owned and controlled while it existed. I shut down that LLC many years ago.

thom311 commented 1 year ago

Merged.

Thank you @ice799, for reporting back and your agreement!!!!!!