On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 08:22:59 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 09:37:42PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > There are no implied IP issues with using the information there I know of and > > if there's any fine print anywhere that may suggest so, please let me know. > > Using the information should be fine, but my understanding of the UEFI > forum rules is that any submissions to UEFI specs must be from UEFI > forum members - there are concerns around accidentally including > patented material. The documents in question are not regarded as UEFI specs, however. They are just hosted by UEFI. > The easy way around this is just for the bindings to > be managed outside UEFI. Again, there's a difference between UEFI material and the UEFI hosting something (but not maintaining it). In principle, the bindings could be hosted by UEFI, but maintained by community members. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
