On 10/09/2015 08:57, Sharma Bhupesh wrote: > So based on my limited understanding, can't the OVMF driver which > uses features from some GPL based code, carry a dual license (GPL + > x11 [MIT]),
No, that would require agreement from the original copyright holder, which you are not going to get. > like most device trees in Linux do now (including the > Freescale ARMv8 DTS, see [1] for reference), thus allowing its usage > across both GPL and BSD based projects (like EDK2). > > We already have examples of such dual-licensed code (libfdt) being > used in BSD-licensed EDK2 (see [2] for details). The dual BSD/GPL license is pointless, since you can already take BSD-licensed code and distribute it under the GPL. It just makes the picture murkier without changing anything in practice. Paolo > In such a case we might not be required to create a separate GIT repo > for the same. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
