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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposed ACPI Licensing change
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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 04:10:00PM -0800, 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.
> 
> Comments?

I think that's fine.  Please use a known license for the second option,
i.e. MPL.

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