Re: [SeaBIOS] [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] Hvmloader: Modify ACPI to only supply _EJ0 methods for PCIslots that support hotplug by runtime patching

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:29:15AM +0000, Gonglei (Arei) wrote:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/tools/firmware/hvmloader/tools/acpi_extract.py
> > > > @@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
> > > > +#!/usr/bin/python
> > > > +# Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc., Michael S. Tsirkin 
> > > > +#
> > > > +# This file may be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license.
> > >
> > > Well, Xen code is under GPLv2 so I don't think you can do this?
> > >
> > > Unless Michael is willing to release it under a different licence?
> >
> > I'd be fine with "GPLv2 or later" so code can flow back to seabios
> > as well - but you will have to track down everyone else who
> > changed this file since I wrote it and get their permission.
>
> Thanks, Michael. I search the git log of above two python files, and
> find two person has changed those two files, Johannes and Kevin.
>
> CC'ing Johannes and Kevin for their permission, which using those 
> two files in Xen code. Thanks in advance!

I'm okay with those two python scripts being used as "GPLv2 or later".

-Kevin