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