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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:47:50 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>,
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Subject: Re: [Git Patch] ACPI: Fix a warning of discarding qualifiers from pointer target type
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:22:51PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Yes, that is the proper solution with a single drawback:
> it touches ACPICA dual-licensed code and would take ages to commit,
> and Len would probably ask you to give permission to re-license it under
> BSD.

The latter is certainly not a problem (assuming that it's non-trivial
enough to be copyrightable, in the first place).