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

[David Zeuthen]

Danny - mind replying to this request? Thanks!

    David

On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 16:46 -0700, Phi Tran wrote:
> 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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