From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/acpi/: possible cleanups
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:30:35 -0500
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On Thursday 27 January 2005 18:04, Len Brown wrote:
> Thanks for the patch Adrian.
> 
> I agree that this is the right direction to go -- enforcing APIs with
> the use of static reduces the possibility of programming errors --
> particularly with many cooks in the kitchen.  Indeed, just on Monday we
> discussed a patch from Alexey Starikovskiy to do the same thing.
> 
> The problem is one of logistics.
> As I've described before, the files with "R. Byron Moore" at the top are
> dual-licensed so Intel can distribute the core interpreter both as GPL
> to Linux and also to FreeBSD, HP-UX etc


Well, I can not speak for Adrian but if I were to submit a patch and state
that it is also dual licensed you should have no troubles applying it even
to the core files, right?
  
-- 
Dmitry
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