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    SubjectRe: Proposed ACPI Licensing change
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    Followup to:  <astkea$6ej$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
    By author: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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    > In fact, I don't think I'd even merge a patch where the submitter tried
    > to limit dual-license code to a simgle license (it might happen with
    > some non-maintained stuff where the original source of the dual license
    > is gone, but if somebody tried to send me an ACPI patch that said "this
    > is GPL only", then I just wouldn't take it).
    >
    > So yes, dual-license code can become GPL-only, but not in _my_ tree.
    >

    This is good. I'd like to keep klibc under a BSD/GPL license because
    some people (e.g. Al Viro) have issued concerns about making a
    nondynamic user-space library GPL or LGPL, and I pretty much agree
    with their concerns. The current klibc tarball isn't completely
    "untainted", since it contains "fixed"/modified kernel headers in a
    few places, but I'm hoping to migrate those changes back into the
    kernel headers proper once the merge is done.

    -hpa
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