[2] The forum was an outgrowth of a joint project between Sony Corporation and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (using the brand name Panasonic).
[4] Phillips and Samsung founded a group with similar aims in November 2004, promoting a universal home application programming interface called the UHAPI Forum.
[8] The UHAPI forum added a few other supporters, such as the Digital TV Alliance of China and Japan-based Access (company),[9] and maintained a web site until the Great Recession of 2008.
[16] CELF initiatives included: Members submit technical output directly back to the relevant open source project (for example, by sending enhancements to the Linux kernel directly to the Linux kernel mailing list, or to an appropriate technology- or architecture-specific mailing list.)
Amongst others the LinuxTiny patches and the LogFS and SquashFS flash file systems have been pushed to mainline Linux.
By 2009 CELF had about 30 members, consisting of consumer electronics manufacturers, semiconductor vendors, and Linux software companies: ARM Ltd., AXE, Inc., Broadcom, Canon Inc.,