From 2d5a369b2c5154a6ee6aef03e2a95300478bc8d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 00:13:32 +0300 Subject: v4l2: Relicense V4L2 compatibility layer under LGPL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit The V4L2 compatibility layer is licensed under the GPL. It is compiled as a binary separate from libcamera.so, and is loaded into the address space of processes through LD_PRELOAD to intercept calls to the C library. It is our understanding and intent that the GPL license doesn't propagate to the binaries whose calls are intercepted, considering those binaries are not derivative work of the V4L2 compatibility layer and are not designed to be linked to the V4L2 compatibility layer. There is however a possibly grey area if binaries are packaged with a shell script wrapper that loads the V4L2 compatibility layer. This could lead to license-related issues if such packaging is performed by Linux distributions or system integrators. To clarify the intent and lift the doubts, relicense the V4L2 compatibility layer under the LGPL. The V4L2 compatibility layer code itself still benefits from the license protection, while its usage with third-party binaries is clearly allowed as intended. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Jacopo Mondi Acked-by: Kieran Bingham Acked-by: Paul Elder Acked-by: Niklas Söderlund Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne --- src/v4l2/v4l2_camera_proxy.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'src/v4l2/v4l2_camera_proxy.h') diff --git a/src/v4l2/v4l2_camera_proxy.h b/src/v4l2/v4l2_camera_proxy.h index e15b230d..af9f9bbe 100644 --- a/src/v4l2/v4l2_camera_proxy.h +++ b/src/v4l2/v4l2_camera_proxy.h @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */ /* * Copyright (C) 2019, Google Inc. * -- cgit v1.2.1