thom311 / libnl

Netlink Library Suite
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[th/fix-gpl-license] change the license for 4 files that were GPL-2.0-only to LGPL-2.1-only #357

Closed thom311 closed 1 year ago

thom311 commented 1 year ago

The project is LGPL-2.1-only, but we had 4 files with GPL-2.0-only license headers. That is a problem, because we package the compilats of those files and distribute them together.

I think those GPL headers were only the result of a mistake. Especially, because they are "only" stand-alone tools under src/. In particular, it affects

Change/Fix the license header of those files. There were trivial several contributions by a few people, but all the relevant code was contributed by Thomas Graf. I think the GPL headers were chosen by mistake and never meant to be GPL. Otherwise, the files would have to be removed.

@tgraf what do you think?