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

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/26/2016 02:54 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 18.07.16 at 16:01, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>
> Ian,
>
> I think all required acks are in place now (just went through the
> original thread again), but I think before committing this another
> pair of eyes double checking would not hurt. Could I ask you to
> do that?

We are still missing Citrix and, ahem, Oracle. For the latter we are
waiting for approval from our legal and it's going rather slow (Konrad
pinged them yesterday)

We (actually, Kevin Tian) also discovered one commit from Lenovo ---
801d469ad8b2b88f669326327df03d03200efbfb. Lars has been looking into
what we can do about that since the address on that patch is no longer
valid.

-boris



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