Re: ANN: libseccomp

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Mon Apr 09 2012 - 15:25:46 EST


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With the seccomp patches finally stabilizing a bit, it seems like now is a
> good time to announce libseccomp: a library designed to make it easier to
> create complex, architecture independent seccomp filters.
>
>  * http://sourceforge.net/projects/libseccomp/
>  * git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/libseccomp/libseccomp
>
> The library has only been in development for the past couple months, so it may
> be a little rough around the edges, and definitely could use more testing, but
> it is functional and has had some basic testing against the seccomp v17
> patches.  The project currently lacks any online documentation or a website
> beyond the basic SF.net tools, but there are current man pages in the source
> repository and the code is reasonably well commented.

Do you think the GPLv2 license will limit adoption of it's usage across
a wider variety of software projects? I'm not anti-GPL by any means
but I am slightly surprised libseccomp is using it.

josh
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