Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 22:24:23 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: "Doran, Mark" <mark.doran@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Matt Tolentino <metolent@snoqualmie.dp.intel.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Saxena, Sunil" <sunil.saxena@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [UPDATED PATCH] EFI support for ia32 kernels
Message-ID: <20030905212423.GC6019@mail.jlokier.co.uk>
References: <0448350A99F69145AEACC4B950ECB3260455FDB9@fmsmsx406.fm.intel.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <0448350A99F69145AEACC4B950ECB3260455FDB9@fmsmsx406.fm.intel.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 616
Lines: 15

Doran, Mark wrote:
> The EFI spec itself is published with a simple copyright statement and
> not one of Intel's "colored" NDA covers.  The sample code that you can
> download from our web site is free to you and comes with what amounts
> to a patent license grant so that you can implement EFI, perhaps using

EFI is covered by patents?  What are they?

Thanks,
-- Jamie
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/