[Apparmor-dev] I coded a logprof improvement

[Crispin Cowan]

adnarim wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:14:34 -0800
> John Johansen <jjohansen at suse.de> wrote:
>   
>> this is a nice extension of logprof, I haven't really spent time with
>> the code yet but I will get to it soon.  I have two questions, one
>> to you and one to the community in general.
>>
>> What licence do you want to use for logprofIM?
>>     
> Well I have to confess that I didn't thought about it until now :) If someone really wants/needs it I will make a version 0.1.1, with the addition that it's licenced under the MIT-licence. Credits would be nice but are not needed...
>   
The rest of AppArmor is all GPLv2 with possibly some LGPLv2 stuff.
Because AppArmor has a kernel module, and the kernel is likely to stay
GPLv2, AppArmor as a practical matter needs to stay GPLv2.

I don't recall whether the MIT license is compatible with GPLv2, but I
don't think it is a requirement if your code is not going to be
explicitly linked with the rest of AppArmor. However, it would make it
much more convenient to bundle your enhancements into AppArmor if it
could also be GPLv2. This would make it simple for someone to understand
the licensing terms of AppArmor, being subject to only one license
without a bunch of complicated exceptions.

Crispin

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