Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 19:51:38 EST


On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:10:00PM -0800, 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.
>
> Comments?

I think that's fine. Please use a known license for the second option,
i.e. MPL.

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