Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> wrote on 07/19/2016 11:00:04 AM:

> Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2
> to LGPLv2.1
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:01:27AM -0400, 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@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>
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
Acked-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>