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



> 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: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> for all Intel related code.

Thanks
Kevin
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