Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v1 02/20] acpi/hvmloader: Move acpi_info initialization out of ACPI code

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/07/2016 01:15 PM, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 01:09:28PM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 07/07/2016 12:58 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
>>> There are two serious problems with this.
>>>
>>> 1. You have dropped the copyright attribution to Intel and Xensource.
>>>
>>> 2. You have changed the licence to BSD-style, even though the original
>>>    was GPLv2-only.
>>
>> I meant this to be a GPLv2 license. And I made the same mistake in a
>> couple of other files.
>>
> The other question is, will this GPLv2 file be linked against other
> toolstack components (libxl is LGPL)? If so, how should we deal with
> different licences?

Two new libxl files will be LGPL and but libacpi files will be GPLv2
(because most of the files there are already GPLv2, I just added a
couple of new ones).

Which would mean that a non-GPL users cannot link against libxl anymore,
right?

-boris

>
> Wei.
>
>> -boris
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Please be more careful!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ian.
>>



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