Ensure libnl is sufficiently LGPL for our use #5

Activity

1. dankamongmen

   self-assigned this

   on Oct 29, 2019
2. dankamongmen

   added

   questionwe have no idea what's going onwe have no idea what's going on

   on Oct 29, 2019
3. dankamongmen

   added this to the 1.0.0 milestone on Oct 29, 2019
4. dankamongmen commented on Oct 30, 2019

   

   dankamongmen

   on Oct 30, 2019

   OwnerAuthor

   More actions

   According to the debian copyright file, we've got a mix of three licenses: LGPL 2.1 for the remainder, GPL2 for a few files, and some one-off Texas Instruments license for a few more.

   GPL2:

   src/nl-addr-add.c
   src/nl-addr-list.c
   src/nl-cls-add.c
   src/cls/utils.c
   src/cls/cgroup.c
   src/cls/utils.h
   src/cls/basic.c
   src/nl-addr-delete.c:
   

   TI:

   include/netlink/xfrm/selector.h
   include/netlink/xfrm/sa.h
   include/netlink/xfrm/ae.h
   include/netlink/xfrm/sp.h
   include/netlink/xfrm/template.h
   include/netlink/xfrm/lifetime.h
   lib/xfrm/sa.c
   lib/xfrm/template.c
   lib/xfrm/ae.c
   lib/xfrm/sp.c
   lib/xfrm/selector.c
   lib/xfrm/lifetime.c
   

   I don't like that GPL2 list. iproute2 uses libmnl, and iproute2 has served me well for twenty years. Maybe we ought make that switch.
5. dankamongmen

   added

   bugshit's fucked upshit's fucked up

   and removed

   questionwe have no idea what's going onwe have no idea what's going on

   on Oct 30, 2019
6. dankamongmen commented on Nov 2, 2019

   

   dankamongmen

   on Nov 2, 2019

   OwnerAuthor

   More actions

   for what it's worth, libmnl is also about 1/4 the size of libnl:

   [schwarzgerat](0) $ ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmnl.so.0.2.0 
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30712 2019-07-29 13:21 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmnl.so.0.2.0
   [schwarzgerat](0) $ ls -l /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-3.so.200.26.0 
   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 139160 2019-08-18 07:08 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnl-3.so.200.26.0
   [schwarzgerat](0) $ 
   
7. dankamongmen commented on May 10, 2023

   

   dankamongmen

   on May 10, 2023

   OwnerAuthor

   More actions

   note that while https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/ only shows releases up through 2014's 3.2.25, https://github.com/thom311/libnl/releases seems quite up-to-date.