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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:26:33PM +0000, Lars Kurth wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/08/2016 07:52, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >> From: Boris Ostrovsky
> >> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 9:57 PM
> >> On 07/18/2016 10:01 AM, 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: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx> for all the Citrix code
> 

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> for all the
Oracle, Sun, and VirtualIron code.

> Regards
> Lars
> 
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