Il 31/05/2013 19:06, Anthony Liguori ha scritto: > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 10:43 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> It's even more fundamental. OVMF as a whole (at least in it's usable >>> form) is not Open Source. >> >> The FAT module is required to make EDK2 usable, and yes, that's not Open >> Source. So in a sense you're right. >> >> But we're talking here about *replacing* the FAT module with something >> that *is* open source. And the FAT module isn't a fundamental part of >> EDK2; it's just an optional module that happens to be bundled with the >> repository. > > So *if* we replace the FAT module *and* that replacement was GPL, would > there be any objects to having more GPL modules for things like virtio, > ACPI, etc? > > And would that be doable in the context of OVMF or would another project > need to exist for this purpose? I don't think it would be doable in TianoCore. I think it would end up either in distros, or in QEMU. A separate question is whether OVMF makes more sense as part of TianoCore or rather as part of QEMU. With 75% of the free hypervisors now reunited under the same source repository, the balance is tilting... Paolo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
