Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

[Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:01:27AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> ACPI builder is currently distributed under GPLv2 license.
>
> We plan to make the builder available to components other
> than the hvmloader (which is also GPLv2). Some of these
> components (such as libxl) may be distributed under LGPL-2.1
> so that they can be used by non-GPLv2 callers.  But this
> will not be possible if we incorporate the ACPI builder in
> those other components.
>
> To avoid this problem we are relicensing sources in ACPI
> bulder directory to the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL)
> version 2.1
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Kouya Shimura <kouya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Stefan Berger <stefanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Daniel

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