Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

2016-07-15 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 07/15/2016 01:48 PM, Lars Kurth wrote: > > On 15/07/2016 18:43, "Ian Jackson" wrote: > > >> This should be >> >> Respectfully, >> >> Lars Kurth (Xen Project Community Manager) >> Boris Ostrovsky (Oracle) >> Ian Jackson (Citrix) >> >> and anyone else you can get to sign up :-). (Assuming we

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

2016-07-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Boris Ostrovsky writes ("Re: [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1"): > On 07/15/2016 01:43 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Boris Ostrovsky writes ("[PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files > > from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1"): > > > >> I added the notice to mk_dsdt.c w

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

2016-07-15 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
On 07/15/2016 01:43 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Boris Ostrovsky writes ("[PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from > GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1"): > >> I added the notice to mk_dsdt.c which didn't have any. The notice >> may not be required since mk_dsdt is Xen build tool and is >> not shipped but

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

2016-07-15 Thread Lars Kurth
On 15/07/2016 18:43, "Ian Jackson" wrote: >Boris Ostrovsky writes ("[PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files >from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1"): >> ACPI builder is currently distributed under GPLv2 license. >> >> We plan to make the builder available to components other >> than the hvmloader (wh

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

2016-07-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Boris Ostrovsky writes ("[PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1"): > ACPI builder is currently distributed under GPLv2 license. > > We plan to make the builder available to components other > than the hvmloader (which is also GPLv2). Some of these > components (suc

[Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC] acpi: Re-license ACPI builder files from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1

2016-07-15 Thread Boris Ostrovsky
ACPI builder is currently distributed under GPLv2 license. We plan to make the builder available to components other than the hvmloader (which is also GPLv2). Some of these components (such as libxl) may distributed under non-GPLv2 licenses and thus we may not be able to link the builder against t