From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc: acpi-devel@sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:58:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF1C643.5070900@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EDC461A30AC4D511ADE10002A5072CAD04C7A57F@orsmsx119.jf.intel.com>
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.
I think this is great.
Since pcmcia already set an example with their license, I think it's a
great model to follow.
I also echo other comments to choose an already-known license like the
MPL or BSD (etc.) so that lawyers don't have extra work ;-)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-07 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-07 0:10 Proposed ACPI Licensing change Grover, Andrew
2002-12-07 0:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-12-07 0:36 ` David Schwartz
2002-12-07 20:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-09 19:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-12-07 0:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-12-07 2:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-07 9:58 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-12-07 17:46 ` Greg KH
2002-12-07 23:44 ` Hans Reiser
2002-12-09 18:59 ` Pavel Machek
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2002-12-07 1:06 Adrian Bunk
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