On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:47:33AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Ansgar, Mattia, > > Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> writes: > > I also checked the initial Debian package on snapshot.debian.org > > (version 20050930-1). It also has only the non-free license in the > > individual files, but states "Dual GPLv2/ACPICA Licence" in d/copyright. > > It also has the BSD-3-clause-or-GPL-2 bit in d/copyright. > > > > It's likely that it was already dual-licensed, but that this wasn't > > documented in the tarball itself. I'm not sure why they now have two > > tarballs instead of one with both licenses... The "GNU General Public > > License or via a separate license that may be more favorable to > > commercial OSVs" (from the FAQ) seems also wrong given there are *three* > > licenses: the non-free one, a 3-clause BSD and the GPL-2 > Well, according to https://github.com/acpica/acpica/commit/84b8d0fd, the > dual-license tarballs are only available starting from version > 20110211. That version can indeed be downloaded as unix2 tarball. > > Mattia: is it reasonable to update this package to a newer version, > based on one of the unix2 tarballs?
yes it is, that's what Al did already: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/acpica-unix_20130214-0.3.html In any case, most of the code of the old packages have been included in the linux kernel for years and the original download page states: The Linux package includes the same functionality as the previous two, but has been modified to integrate smoothly with the Linux kernel source. This includes conversion of the ACPI CA source code to the Linux kernel coding standard, and licensing under the GNU General Public License. ... Linux The latest IASL compiler for Linux can be built from the Unix source package: download acpica-unix-VERSION.tar.gz $ tar xzf acpica-unix-VERSION.tar.gz $ cd acpica-unix-VERSION/compiler $ make Starting with Linux kernel 2.4, ACPI CA is in the Linux kernel. (taken from a randomly old snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20050911035003/http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads.htm) from the commit log you referenced the explicit licence on source files was requested by FreeBSD but ACPICA has always been dual licensed. -- mattia :wq! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
