From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received-SPF: Pass (sender SPF authorized) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=2607:f8b0:4864:20::944; helo=mail-ua1-x944.google.com; envelope-from=sumit.garg@linaro.org; receiver=edk2-devel@lists.01.org Received: from mail-ua1-x944.google.com (mail-ua1-x944.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::944]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 252232115BE21 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ua1-x944.google.com with SMTP id i4-v6so1907708uak.0 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:29:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linaro.org; s=google; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=04NpsiDcU9SpeMFg1zO5737mnFhFp/1s21LgTkpZoQQ=; b=IwnXAAJRAYsQfEpT3Ylp74ZosE38bVOW/PuGCFNVvwhezSoaQuEK3MbCrdeUBA6nvt DfUUgu1/K+ZMppWth3Rpsd3GSB/xK47RafiboSGxRQ8QvzVhKHpHQ4PEAC5Y0CD16XDw IGXFB80NvzxqmmxZvXsh+8iXvAff8DnvyqesA= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=04NpsiDcU9SpeMFg1zO5737mnFhFp/1s21LgTkpZoQQ=; b=Q/+fOPCziqduz7SwEiEdKy8uYIWhvPlarHDsQPdSp7pycnU6MyqED+6RAASsy7DSpe eXM7KrwuxNABgcGuJNIUuXaIjQNAER4i0ueVQu18mnFJev7Y5mzaoX4lrx0Wd4niyWSh RF462ctTGFDahFjDFKFXx+T9Iqt1SeN27PSEJUj8vUWjPPUxCxIWZDoASK1a9Wh7WEgz TJQE9Pg+Y8FSF27BCLe3tZPNtXIF0VNZKu6lxdHTjxcF1J+vKbS7aeCzw4aovDa5zVUG 8S3u1BII1/7WzRGQOg62F+9qkJhVU9aefvkQUTvrgTXiAz2uHTOMz8PgVLHs2NrNiXyC rf4w== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfoi3Dzi8DqvZX0Ka0W5tXKda/Zhvyer1m/tZAoD1w3wOmkRB2VoF 8oDDx+XL3OVhdGGtooBgKm5aV5F6KPUQg/xWMSVpnA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV6195CA4XIiEkQbcrnEn0qvVf2CK+Ag8ls4DsIbUcQV7BUu5vuuZpETihx2rlmQZFjQPf64Nv3h4zRLxCmhGa5U= X-Received: by 2002:ab0:18d5:: with SMTP id d21-v6mr3300536uah.97.1538116184625; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:29:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1535370620-10032-1-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org> <1535370620-10032-2-git-send-email-sumit.garg@linaro.org> <20180927125156.3ylxviy5lnu5pm4w@debby> In-Reply-To: <20180927125156.3ylxviy5lnu5pm4w@debby> From: Sumit Garg Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:59:33 +0530 Message-ID: To: Joakim Bech Cc: Michael D Kinney , Ard Biesheuvel , edk2-devel@lists.01.org, tee-dev@lists.linaro.org, Leif Lindholm , Daniel Thompson , Matteo.Carlini@arm.com, Achin.Gupta@arm.com, udit.kumar@nxp.com, Liming Gao Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] MdePkg/IndustryStandard: Add Global Plaform header file X-BeenThere: edk2-devel@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: EDK II Development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 06:29:46 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 18:21, Joakim Bech 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 =E2=80=9CProgress! Finally, having discussed with colleagues, we ha= ve > 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 [=E2=80=A6].=E2=80=9D > > 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