[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/8] winxp, installer: Ignore unsigned drivers

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 09:26:19 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 04:49:05PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Christophe Fergeau
> <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:54:52PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:05:53PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> >> whats the difference between copyleft and free, as in Free Software?
> >> >> Reading this, I don't see any:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
> >> >
> >> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft#Types_of_copyleft_and_relation_to_other_licenses
> >>
> >> OK, I stand corrected about the exact definition of copyleft. :)
> >>
> >> Since you are stressing on this distinction, I imagine you know some
> >> free drivers out there that are signed?
> >
> > Nope, but that does not mean they do not exist.
> 
> Well then I'm just not being very precise in my commit log. With the
> API I'm proposing, Apps can easily decide to not use unsigned drivers
> even if script supports it. So I don't see the need for Apps to have
> to use a configuration parameter to disable this manually.

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libosinfo/2013-January/msg00108.html

Christophe
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