hald/linux/acpi.[ch] dual-license?

[Phi Tran]

Ok, it would help if I sent it to the HAL lists also.

Phi Tran wrote:
> Danny,
> 
> I'm forwarding this email to you on the HAL list since this is a related
> HAL issue and would like your help.  Also, you seem more active on the
> list :)  Please take a look at the issue below which Richard and David
> have given permission.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phi
> 
> 
> Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
> 
>> Richard, David, Danny,
>>
>> We're in the process of adding ACPI/battery support to the Solaris HAL 
>> backend, and found that borrowing code from acpi.c could give us the 
>> most consistent behavior with Linux. Two key differences:
>>
>> 1) we get info from the driver, not /proc, i.e. 
>> hal_util_set_*_elem_from_file() become ioctl();
>> 2) we do this in addon, not hald, i.e. hal_*() become libhal_*();
>>
>> But assuming the underlying hardware is the same, those little bits of 
>> your experience with ACPI "peculiarities" on various systems 
>> incorporated in acpi.c could be useful to us.
>>
>> The problem is that acpi.[ch] are under GPL, as opposed to common HAL 
>> code which is GPL+AFL. Our addon-acpi is under AFL, so we cannot link 
>> them together. I wonder if it would be possible to also dual-license 
>> these two files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Artem.
>>
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