From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 00:51:38 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <20021207005138.A22295@infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from andrew.grover-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:10:00PM -0800 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: > 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? I think that's fine. Please use a known license for the second option, i.e. MPL.