[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/9] EFI payload / application support

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun Dec 27 20:48:21 CET 2015


On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 06:39:16PM +0000, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 01:10:39PM -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
> > So, my only "big" concern here is, are we as a community able to view
> > and implement the relevant parts of the UEFI spec (without having to
> > agree to a potentially complicated enough license to have to bug a
> > lawyer)?  It's been a while since I tried to view a copy so I'm hoping
> > the answer is now yes.  Thanks!
> 
> So:
> 1) You can certainly read the specification without agreeing to
>    anything (click-through is now gone - docs accessible straight from
>    http://uefi.org/specifications/).

Thats good.

> 2) The potential complication would be with regards to implementing
>    and distributing - which requires signing the Adopters Agreement:
>    http://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Adopters_Agreement_100907.pdf
> 
> I actually think the implications of 2) for a project like U-Boot
> would be a useful thing to bring up for discussion on the FW/OS forum
> mailing list at http://uefi.org/FWOSForum.

OK, I'll bring it up over there, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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