On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Harald Gutmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> like said before, i don't know if this is a licensing problem or not. and also > like stated before, this patch is not suggested for commiting. Understand. Yes, we certainly don't want to put a copy of factory ACPI in our SVN UNLESS: someone wants to contact the manufacturer and gets permission. If they do get permission, I suggest that a copy of the email granting permission be dropped in the mainboard directory. I have had experience with the following: 1. Vendor: please do this port. 2. We do the port. (years pass) (people move around) 3. Vendor: WHY IS OUR MAINBOARD IN YOUR SOURCE TREE? PLEASE REMOVE! (we didn't :-) So you have to be careful once you get the ok ... either get ACPI with a GPL-from-vendor note in it or leave a nice audit trail, preferably with a copy of the email in comments. AMD, as always, is one example of how to get this done correctly. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
