From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932193AbcA0MWY (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 07:22:24 -0500 Received: from mail-lf0-f42.google.com ([209.85.215.42]:36462 "EHLO mail-lf0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753148AbcA0MWV (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 07:22:21 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ACPI: parse the SPCR table To: Peter Hurley , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <1453722324-22407-1-git-send-email-aleksey.makarov@linaro.org> <56A6494E.3090303@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Graeme Gregory , Russell King , Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , Leif Lindholm From: Aleksey Makarov Message-ID: <56A8B570.2060501@linaro.org> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:17:52 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56A6494E.3090303@hurleysoftware.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. 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? Thank you Aleksey Makarov