Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Sat, 07 Dec 2002 04:58:27 -0500


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

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