Re: [tboot-devel] SINIT module license

2009-07-22 Thread Shane Wang
The new license for SINIT allows to _redistribute_ in binary form without modification. To make SINIT to be part of firmware, I think it will meet the upgrade problem. The upgrade of firmware is rare and not so easy for users. Thanks. Shane Jonathan M. McCune wrote: > Is it not also the case t

Re: [tboot-devel] SINIT module license

2009-07-22 Thread Jonathan M. McCune
Is it not also the case that the long-term plan is for the module specific to a particular system to be included with that system as part of its firmware? I.e., code that wants to use TXT can just read the appropriate module out of a well-known memory location? If this is the case, then it sol

Re: [tboot-devel] SINIT module license

2009-07-22 Thread Shane Wang
Yes, you are right. Shane Martin Pirker wrote: > Reading the "Intel Software License Agreement" packaged along > with the SINIT binaries, I would interpret it that it is not > allowed to distribute the SINIT modules. > Rather, every user who wants to do a TXT boot needs to > download and install