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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: KVM call agenda for 2013-05-28
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 15:27:08 -0500
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Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>> In terms of creating a FAT module, the most likely source would seem to
>> be the kernel code and since that's GPL, I don't think it's terribly
>> avoidable to end up with a GPL'd uefi implementation.
>
> Why would OpenBSD not be a potential source?
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/msdosfs/

If someone is going to do it, that's fine.

But if me, it's going to be a GPL base.  Actually, enabling GPL
contributions to OVMF is a major motivating factor for me in this whole
discussion.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> We have a half-done ext2 fs from GSoC2011 that started with OpenBSD.
>
> https://github.com/the-ridikulus-rat/Tianocore_Ext2Pkg
>
>> If that's inevitable, then we're wasting effort by rewriting stuff under
>> a BSD license.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori