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

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 26.08.16 at 15:08, <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/26/2016 08:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>> On 26.08.16 at 14:13, <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)
>> Okay, I wrongly thought the Citrix part was already taken care
>> of. But how can Oracle be still pending when the patch has your
>> S-o-b?
> 
> Apparently license update requires review by Oracle's legal. Especially
> given that we are relicensing changes made by Virtual Iron and Sun.

Until then I'll drop this patch and all the accumulated ack from my
pending-to-be-applied queue. Please re-submit when done.

Jan


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