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Re: Signature verification in GRUB
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Chris Murphy |
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Re: Signature verification in GRUB |
Date: |
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 13:07:39 -0600 |
On Oct 10, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense.
Chris Murphy