On 01/27/2016 08:45 AM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:17:52 +0300
Aleksey Makarov [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 01/25/2016 07:11 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:

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On 01/25/2016 03:45 AM, Aleksey Makarov wrote:  

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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.

Here is an excerpt from it:

  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. 

I believe that it means that the patch set meets the criteria for submission.  Am I right?

This is not a forum for legal advice. I would suggest that Linaro
discusses it privately with the Linux Foundation and Linus and does so
under attorney-client privilege. The Linux Foundation does have some
reasons to exist.

Thanks for the reply, Alan. Can folks discuss and let me know off list
if another license change is subsequently requested for this table? I
spoke with Microsoft about this and they graciously made the previous
license change. I am willing to connect additional dots off-list.

Jon.

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