It should be relatively easy to relicense the code as most of the
commits have Intel copyright.
Personally I would not mind because that would give opportunity for
code that I wrote to have a wider audience but it needs to be forked
with some other license first.
I support also the idea of refining the selftest as a run-time, which
could perhaps consist of the following steps:
1. Create a repository of the self-compiling selftest with GPLv2. You
could add also AUTHORS file for the initial content by crawling this
data from the git log.
2. Create a commit with sob's from the required stakeholders, which
changes the license to something more appropriate, and get the
sob's with some process.