On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 17:19:04 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream
Hurray! :-) > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:07:03 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > > > He has replied to me today to say that they are aware of the issue and > > are working with Microsoft to rectify the issue soon. We'll see :) > > Their work has paid off and there is a new FatPkg under the 2-clause > BSD license, thanks to Microsoft agreeing to the change: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bios.edk2.devel/9930/focus=9956 > https://twitter.com/tianocore/status/715016134982930432?s=09 If I understand correctly, this means that a new upstream version of ovmf will soonish be released without any non-free restrictions. And that this new version will be packaged for inclusion in Debian main. If this is confirmed, then, wow!, it is a great outcome. Thanks a lot to anyone who helped, and, thank you Microsoft [*]. [*] it feels a bit awkward to say this, but... credit where credit is due... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/ There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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