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From: | Andrew Fish |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [edk2] EDK II & GPL - Re: OVMF BoF @ KVM Forum 2015 |
Date: | Wed, 09 Sep 2015 20:26:54 -0700 |
No but I have to review any code contributed to the open source project to make sure it follows the corporate polices.
No but thanks for making my point for me. 1st off the rules are made by lawyers and managers so you trying to argue logic is kind of funny. What does logic have to do with it. Your company started this edk2 project as a BSD project, and I assume there was a reason for that. The reasons rules like this end up getting made is that developers like you are confused about the company policy regarding open source, closed source and protecting intellectual property rights. So your very smart and well versed and you are confused, so some more jr. engineer has no hope of getting it right and would copy the GPL code and be clueless to what he just did. As I always say a development process exists to slow down the best developer, at the price of preventing the most jr. developers from doing something stupid.
If the developer is even paying attention, or using a tool that highlights path vs. filename. Or maybe the path is too long to display and gets shortened in a way that Gpl is not obvious. Not to mention if this was so easy why not include the source for the FAT driver with the GPL sources? We could add EvilNonGplCompatibleLicence to the path and that would solve everything.
Then logically you should just make OVMF a GPL project? Thanks, Andrew Fish
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