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

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 26/08/2016 08:13, "Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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)

Ah, OK, I thought I had given this but will formally reply to the thread
on behalf of Citrix and award an ACKed by

>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.

I will chat to Jun while at LinuxCon and KVM forum.
Lars

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