Licensing? Was: Removing Optical Boot Requirement from F20 Alpha Release Requirements

[Bill Nottingham]

Chris Murphy (lists at colorremedies.com) said: 
> 
> On Sep 19, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Given the current state of the art, all known UEFI implementations for
> > VMs require the use of a FAT driver whose license forbids redistribution
> > for general purpose use, which means Fedora cannot ship it. 
> 
> I don't understand this. 

Not speaking to any issues of legality or non-legality, but fairly sure he's
referring to the FAT driver in the EFI bios itself, which would have to be
distributed in the EFI bios used by QEMU/KVM for virtual systems. It's not
the linux kernel driver.

Bill