Il 06/08/2014 23:51, Andrew Fish ha scritto:
> On Aug 6, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> However, the non-free nature of the OVMF binaries mean that QEMU
>> will never ever ship OVMF binaries until the license is fixed for
>> the offending FAT driver. Not only because we don't want to g
On 06/08/14 14:51, Andrew Fish wrote:
> How you write a GPL licensed FAT driver seems like a legal quagmire. Probably
> something better discussed with a lawyer. From the outside looking in it
> seems like the IP rights are enforced by charging licensing fees to devices
> that support FAT. So f
On Aug 6, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 06/08/2014 12:34, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
>> So no, you can't ship an OVMF binary (or source tarball) that contains
>> the FAT driver, bundled as part of the GPLv2 (+compatible) QEMU
>> distribution, either in source or in binary form.
>
>
Il 06/08/2014 12:34, Laszlo Ersek ha scritto:
> So no, you can't ship an OVMF binary (or source tarball) that contains
> the FAT driver, bundled as part of the GPLv2 (+compatible) QEMU
> distribution, either in source or in binary form.
What Laszlo said is mostly my understanding too (IANAL etc.).
On 08/06/14 09:40, Reza Jelveh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> EDK2 integrates FAT as a binary driver. What is the license of the FAT driver?
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2/FatBinPkg/License.txt
> What are the guidelines for use of binary drivers with EDK2? Specifically if
> you want to bund
