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I can create the patch on your > behalf, but since this is a license change, it's better if you author it > yourselves. I rethought and decided to take my liberty to create the patches for the relicensing on behalf of the authors. I will send out the patches soon. Authors, and contributors, May I ask your responses to the patches with you Acked-by tags? Thanks in advance.