Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] MdePkg/IndustryStandard: Add Global Plaform header file

[Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 18:21, Joakim Bech <joakim.bech@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