Re: [gNewSense-users] acpica-unix - ACPICA License - Non-Free ?

[Tor at Shared Genius]

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Leo wrote:
> On Friday 05 June 2009 14:52:56 marco oliva wrote:
>> acpica-unix have dual GPLv2/ACPICA Licence.
>>
>> The ACPICA license, i think that is non-free, but i'm not sure:
>>
>> ->
>> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/acpica-unix/current/copyr
>> ight
>>
>> -> http://archive.gnewsense.org/gnewsense/pool/main/a/acpica-unix/
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, the fact that it is dual licensed and that the other 
> license is GNU GPL v2 already makes it free software. 
> 
> 
Absolutely.  Being dual licensed, we can choose to accept it under the
GPL, therefore making it free software.  There could be other versions
modified under the other license that would be non-free, but that
doesn't apply here.

Tor

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