From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Signature verification in GRUB
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:33:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121010183311.GA15393@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A339188-C432-43E9-AE19-23713E88A26E@colorremedies.com>
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 06:32:49PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Basically Fedora 18 will be the first Fedora to support UEFI Secure
> Boot. They are moving to a shim bootloader before GRUB2 because GRUB2
> is GPLv3 licensed, which requires making signing keys available
> (Installation Method requirement) so users can still make their own
> modifications and boot the system with those modifications.
This isn't quite accurate - GPLv3 wasn't an issue, but using shim makes
it easier to guarantee that users can exercise their freedoms and also
means we don't have to upload a binary to Microsoft every time we update
grub.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-10 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-09 22:54 Signature verification in GRUB Geoffrey Thomas
2012-10-10 0:32 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-10 1:14 ` Geoffrey Thomas
2012-10-10 18:33 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-10-10 19:07 ` Chris Murphy
2012-10-13 10:36 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2012-10-15 21:33 ` Geoffrey Thomas
2012-10-18 18:06 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2012-10-18 18:17 ` Geoffrey Thomas
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