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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:59:32 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/18] Documentation: ACPI for ARM64
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:11:13PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 08:22:59 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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.

There's arguably some precedent for that - the ACPI vendor IDs and EFI 
System Partition name repositories are hosted rather than specs. But it 
seems like there's some qualitative difference between that kind of raw 
data and something that actually defines behaviour. But if the UEFI 
people feel comfortable with this, it's not a problem.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org