Hi Al, Somehow your email was filtered. Apologies for that. On 02/10/2016 03:39 PM, Al Stone wrote: > On 01/27/2016 05:17 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: >> >> >> On 01/25/2016 07:11 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: >>> On 01/25/2016 03:45 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote: >>>> This patchset is based on the patchset by Leif Lindholm [1] >>>> >>>> 'ARM Server Base Boot Requirements' [2] mention SPCR >>>> (Serial Port Console Redirection Table) [3] as a mandatory >>>> ACPI table that specifies the configuration of serial console. >>>> >>>> Licensing concerns have prevented implementing it in the past, but as of >>>> 10 August 2015, these tables have both been released also under >>>> OWF 1.0 [4]. >>> >>> This license has a patent retaliation provision, which makes it >>> incompatible with GPLv2. >>> >>> *If the license applies to this code*, then this patch set does not >>> meet the criteria for submission. >> >> The license applies not to this code but to the document describing the tables. > > Just for the record, the SPCR table struct definition has been part > of the Linux kernel since at least commit b24aad44 on 2009-07-24 > (line 1112 of include/acpi/actbl2.h) -- or so git blame tells me. Just to be clear here: The Microsoft specification, which defines the SPCR table struct and which this patch series relies on, notes that patents apply. Specifically, it says: Patent Notice: Microsoft is making certain patent rights available for implementations of this specification under two options: 1) Microsoft’s Community Promise, available at http://www.microsoft.com/openspecifications/en/us/programs/community-promise/default.aspx; or 2) The Open Web Foundation Final Specification Agreement Version 1.0 ("OWF 1.0") as of October 1, 2012, available at http://www.openwebfoundation.org/legal/the-owf-1-0-agreements/owfa-1-0. Version 1.03 — August 10, 2015 I don't believe either of those patent licenses are GPL compatible. Unless you're saying Red Hat is signing off on this? Regards, Peter Hurley -- 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
