[coreboot] Libpayload USB support
Joseph Smith
joe at settoplinux.org
Fri Feb 5 16:12:47 CET 2010
On 02/05/2010 10:07 AM, bifferos wrote:
>
> --- On Fri, 5/2/10, Joseph Smith<joe at settoplinux.org> wrote:
>> I don't understand why libpayload is BSD and not GPL? It
>> just doe not
>> make very much sense.
>
> It makes perfect sense to me. This allows OEMs to make closed-source
> payloads for coreboot, something which may have a positive affect on
> Coreboot uptake.
>
Ok, but I don't see how closed-source can ever be a good thing for
coreboot. Especially when we boast about our code being open-source for
the world to see that it has no security concerns....
To me it sounds like an easy spot for an OEM to slip in what ever they
want...
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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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