[SeaBIOS] [PATCH RFC dontapply] license: make acpi bits GPLv2 compatible

Kevin O'Connor kevin at koconnor.net
Tue Mar 19 23:57:34 CET 2013


On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:10:20AM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:49:32PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 04:14:27PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > QEMU generally prefers GPLv2 or later, but GPLv2 is also
> > > accepted. I assumed 'or later' won't be acceptable to Kevin,
> > > further, the DSDTs are currently explictly under GPLv2 so this is
> > > consistent.
> > 
> > I actually prefer "or later" - I don't recall why I didn't state that
> > in the beginning.  It didn't seem worthwhile to change it later on.
> 
> Okay so should I simply try to make it all LGPLv2+? Or dual
> LGPLv3 and GPLv2+ like I did here?

I'd go with whatever the QEMU preference is.

> Well dual license on the QEMU copy is a bit more friendly to QEMU
> as code can move in both directions.
> But if you fear confusion, I'll just apply the patch to QEMU only.

Thanks.

-Kevin



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