On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 18:21, Joakim Bech <joakim.b...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 05:40:49PM +0530, Sumit Garg wrote: > > +Joakim > > > > Joakim, > > > > Please help to answer below query from Michael regarding licensing > > concerns for using Global Platform specs content in OP-TEE. > > > This dates back to ~2014 before OP-TEE had been pushed as an open source > project and indeed the click-through license was one thing that was > discussed before we decided to publish this. Having that said, the legal > people at ST (back then the project was owned by ST) concluded that we > could use the GP click-through license for the APIs, this is a > copy/paste from an email discussion with ST (in 2014). > > "On the legal side, one week ago our legal dedicated to this matter > wrote “Progress! Finally, having discussed with colleagues, we have > concluded that we can use the GP click-through license for the APIs. > Therefore I just need to tidy up the following points and we will be > able to provide both the CLA and the license terms for the distribution > quite quickly […].” > > I don't know how the discussion went inside ST nor who the legal person > was, but since ST had people on GlobalPlatform boards back then, I > suppose that the ST legal people went that way. The only way to find out > more about this is to talk directly to ST legal people who were involved > in this back in the days. >
Thanks Joakim for this info. Mike, Please share your views on this and if we could include content from Global Platform spec into MdePkg as an industry standard. -Sumit _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
