Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper

From: "Wangnan (F)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 09:46:51 +0800

On 2015/10/24 1:25, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 10/23/15 9:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:02:00AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>> On 10/23/15 7:39 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 08:02:34PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>>>>> +static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_output_proto = {
>>>>>> +    .func        = bpf_perf_event_output,
>>>>>> +    .gpl_only    = false,
>>>> Oh ?
>>>
>>> no particular reason. key helper bpf_probe_read() is gpl, so all
>>> bpf for tracing progs have to be gpl.
>>> If you feel strongly about it, I can change it.
>>
>> All the perf symbols are export GPL, so I suppose this should be true.
>
> ok. will send a patch.
>

Can we (or have we already) setup some rules for licensing? Which part
should be GPL? Who has the response to decide it?

Thank you.