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




On 04/08/2016 07:52, "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> 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: Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxxxxx> for all the Citrix code

Regards
Lars

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