From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>,
Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Kouya Shimura <kouya@jp.fujitsu.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 09:08:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f563c498-133a-8ff0-a705-1b3df26a31b6@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57C05757020000780010963B@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>
On 08/26/2016 08:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 26.08.16 at 14:13, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 08/26/2016 02:54 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 18.07.16 at 16:01, <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> 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@oracle.com>
>>>> CC: Kouya Shimura <kouya@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>>> CC: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
>>>> CC: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
>>>> CC: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
>>>> CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
>>>> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
>>>> CC: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@citrix.com>
>>> 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.
-boris
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-18 14:01 [PATCH] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1 Boris Ostrovsky
2016-07-19 15:00 ` Daniel Kiper
2016-07-19 19:34 ` Stefan Berger
2016-07-20 0:55 ` Kouya Shimura
2016-08-01 13:56 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-08-01 14:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-04 6:52 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-08-26 13:26 ` Lars Kurth
2016-09-03 0:17 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2016-08-15 12:57 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-08-26 6:26 ` Simon Horman
2016-08-26 6:54 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-26 12:13 ` Boris Ostrovsky
2016-08-26 12:51 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-26 13:08 ` Boris Ostrovsky [this message]
2016-08-26 13:29 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-26 13:23 ` Lars Kurth
[not found] <20160805154726.GA15222@carpenters.cam.cohodata.com>
2016-08-05 17:36 ` Keir Fraser
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