From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stefan Berger" Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:34:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1468850487-5590-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> <20160719150004.GA3140@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8717823057913049680==" Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bPamv-0000zr-6a for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:34:41 +0000 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098419.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u6JJY3Ki133234 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:34:37 -0400 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com (e38.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.159]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2496ec6xbv-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:34:36 -0400 Received: from localhost by e38.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:34:35 -0600 Received: from b03cxnp07028.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03cxnp07028.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.15]) by d03dlp01.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B622C40018 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:34:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.130.235]) by b03cxnp07028.gho.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u6JJYIQ749676398 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 12:34:21 -0700 Received: from b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB53E78059 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:34:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d50lp02.ny.us.ibm.com (unknown [146.89.104.208]) by b03ledav004.gho.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A54C090003 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:34:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost by d50lp02.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 15:34:19 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by smtp.notes.na.collabserv.com with smtp.notes.na.collabserv.com ESMTP for from ; Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:34:16 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20160719150004.GA3140@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Daniel Kiper Cc: Lars Kurth , Keir Fraser , Ian Jackson , Simon Horman , Kouya Shimura , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Boris Ostrovsky List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org --===============8717823057913049680== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 006B84E785257FF5_=" --=_alternative 006B84E785257FF5_= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Daniel Kiper wrote on 07/19/2016 11:00:04 AM: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2=20 > to LGPLv2.1 >=20 > 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 > > CC: Kouya Shimura > > CC: Daniel Kiper > > CC: Stefan Berger > > CC: Simon Horman > > CC: Keir Fraser > > CC: Ian Jackson > > CC: Lars Kurth >=20 > Acked-by: Daniel Kiper Acked-by: Stefan Berger --=_alternative 006B84E785257FF5_= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" 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:
> > ACP= I builder is currently distributed under GPLv2 license.
> >
>= ; > We plan to make the builder available to components other
> &g= t; than the hvmloader (which is also GPLv2). Some of these
> > com= ponents (such as libxl) may be distributed under LGPL-2.1
> > so t= hat they can be used by non-GPLv2 callers.  But this
> > will= not be possible if we incorporate the ACPI builder in
> > those o= ther components.
> >
> > To avoid this problem we are rel= icensing sources in ACPI
> > bulder directory to the Lesser GNU Pu= blic License (LGPL)
> > version 2.1
> >
> > Sign= ed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
> > = CC: Kouya Shimura <kouya@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > CC: Daniel Kipe= r <dkiper@net-space.pl>
> > CC: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us= .ibm.com>
> > CC: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
&g= t; > CC: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
> > CC: Ian Jackson &= lt;ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> > CC: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth= @citrix.com>
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-spac= e.pl>
Acked-by: Stefan Berger <stef= anb@us.ibm.com>

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