[LinuxBIOS] Potential copyright issues with decompiling ACPI tables?

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Janek Kozicki wrote:

> > Facts can't be copyrighted. But it's not easy to use that to convince
> > someone to stop labeling a fact as being copyrighted.
> 
> but current linux kernel has to decompile ACPI tables too, right? and BSD also?

sure it does. Now what happens if it decompiles tables and mails them to 
world, I just don't know. 

ron