On 08/26/2016 08:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 26.08.16 at 14:13, <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On 08/26/2016 02:54 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>>>> On 18.07.16 at 16:01, <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> 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 be distributed under LGPL-2.1
>>>> so that they can be used by non-GPLv2 callers.  But this
>>>> will not be possible if we incorporate the ACPI builder in
>>>> those other components.
>>>>
>>>> To avoid this problem we are relicensing sources in ACPI
>>>> bulder directory to the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL)
>>>> version 2.1
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>
>>>> CC: Kouya Shimura <ko...@jp.fujitsu.com>
>>>> CC: Daniel Kiper <dki...@net-space.pl>
>>>> CC: Stefan Berger <stef...@us.ibm.com>
>>>> CC: Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au>
>>>> CC: Keir Fraser <k...@xen.org>
>>>> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
>>>> CC: Lars Kurth <lars.ku...@citrix.com>
>>> Ian,
>>>
>>> I think all required acks are in place now (just went through the
>>> original thread again), but I think before committing this another
>>> pair of eyes double checking would not hurt. Could I ask you to
>>> do that?
>> We are still missing Citrix and, ahem, Oracle. For the latter we are
>> waiting for approval from our legal and it's going rather slow (Konrad
>> pinged them yesterday)
> Okay, I wrongly thought the Citrix part was already taken care
> of. But how can Oracle be still pending when the patch has your
> S-o-b?

Apparently license update requires review by Oracle's legal. Especially
given that we are relicensing changes made by Virtual Iron and Sun.

-boris


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