What exactly prevents someone from distributing the fat32 code with other
products? I'm not sure I fully understand the additional terms of the
FAT32 license. What does the "directly managed by" ... “UEFI
Specifications”. Does that mean it can only be used in an EFI compliant
product or something approved by Intel/UEFI forum?
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM, David Woodhouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>
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