On Mon, 2013-02-04 at 15:49 -0800, Andrew Fish wrote: > > David, > > What is wrong with the FAT license. It seems very sane to me as the > driver was written from info in the FAT specification that carries > this same license. The FAT specification grants a license to use it > with EFI, and actually documents how FAT works. Not a bad thing....
The problem with the existing version is that it isn't free software, which means that a number of people are unable to distribute it. Part of my reason for working on CSM support, amongst other things, is that I'm trying to improve adoption and acceptance of UEFI by getting people to use it and ship it in virtual machines. I want to get to the point where people find problems on real hardware, then feel empowered to boot OVMF in a virtual machine, test and fix bugs as appropriate. For that to happen, OVMF really needs to be shippable as *part* of the OS distribution that people are using. Otherwise the whole plan falls apart. So having non-free dependencies is extremely problematic. -- dwmw2
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