Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:58:52 +0930
William Brown <william at firstyear.id.au> wrote:

> On 1/06/12 16:50, Javier Perez wrote:
> > William. The operating word here is Tiviozation.
> > You can compile the kernel but you can't run it on the system. That is
> > the threat GPL3 is trying to counteract.
> > By creating "valid" kernels, by definition "not valid kernels" cannot run.
> > 
> 
> Well, It would appear that Grub 2 is GPL3, and in my interpretation of
> how Tivoization works, this would appear to be a violation.

I'm assuming they will switch to another loader. Tivoising grub2 would
indeed be asking for a fight.

Alan