From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:24:06 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021207002405.GR2544@fs.tum.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: To: "Grover, Andrew" Cc: acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:10:00PM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > Hi all, Hi Andrew, >... > One consequence of this is that we have not been able to benefit directly > from patches from other Linux contributors. The reason is, patches submitted > to code only under the GPL must also be GPL, and therefore we cannot take > them directly and still make our code available under a license other than > the GPL. (We have to determine the problem the patch fixes and then do the > fix ourselves.) >... > In order to solve this, we are considering releasing the Linux version of > the interpreter under a dual license. This would allow direct incorporation > of changes. Any patches submitted against the ACPI core code would > implicitly be allowed to be used by us in a non-GPL context. This is already > done elsewhere in the Linux kernel source by the PCMCIA code, for example. > > Comments? two comments regarding the right of an author to freely choose under which license(s) he wants to make his patch available: If a submitter wants to allow you to use his patch under both licenses he's already able to allow you to do so. You can't forbid people to send GPL-only patches, so if a person doesn't want his patch under your looser license you can't enforce that he also releases it under your looser license. > Regards -- Andy cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed