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On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 00:10, 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 an extremely good idea. I certainly would have no problem contributing cleanup/fixes to the project under those terms. And if I did something large and mega cool with ACPI I can still GPL it only and you can still ignore it 8) There is a tradition of contributing patches back under the license the project you are contributing to used (and ACPI is certainly big enough to be 'a project' not just a patch) Suits me fine Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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