Extended PSS ACPI Method Specification

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EXTENDEDD PSS METHOD SPECIFICATION LICENSE

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1. GRANT OF LICENSE.

1. Provided that you comply with all terms and conditions of this Agreement, Microsoft grants to you the following non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited license under any copyrights or patents that cover the Extended PSS (XPSS) ACPI method described in the Specification and that are owned or licensable by Microsoft without payment of consideration to third parties,

   1. to reproduce copies of the Specification for you and your contractor's internal use for the sole purpose of (1) modifying your firmware and/or BIOS for computing devices ("Firmware") so that it writes to memory the appropriate XPSS ACPI method in the Specification or (2) modifying your software so that it may read from memory the appropriate XPSS ACPI method (the "Purpose"),

   2. to implement the XPSS ACPI method in your firmware and/or BIOS,

   3. to license to third parties directly and indirectly the XPSS ACPI method as part of your Firmware (and any related documentation),

      The foregoing license is granted only to the extent necessary to accomplish the Purpose and to license and/or distribute your Firmware containing the XPSS ACPI method to third parties. The foregoing license shall not extend to any features of your Firmware that (i) are not required to comply with the Specification or (ii) to which there was a practicable alternative to infringing a patent.

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2. ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS AND OBLIGATIONS.

1. You must implement XPSS Interface in its entirety (e.g., all fields) and without modification (e.g., parameter encoding and permissible values as described in the Specification).

2. Your license rights to the Specification are conditioned upon you not creating, modify, or distributing your Firmware in a way that such creation, modification, or distribution may (a) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft with respect to the Specification (or intellectual property therein) or (b) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities to Microsoft's intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Specification.

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