On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Greg KH <gre...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > The FSF has already said that using Grub2 and the GPLv3 is just fine > with the UEFI method of booting, so there is no problem from that side. > There's a statement about this somewhere on their site if you are > curious. > > The only one objecting to GPLv3 and UEFI is the current rules for > getting a shim/bootloader signed by Microsoft, but the current > implementations we have all have either a GPLv2 or BSD licensed shim > which then loads GRUB, so all is fine from a licensing and legal > standpoint from everyone involved.
Makes sense to me, thanks. An MS-signed bootloader isn't nearly as critical for Gentoo as it is for other distros - we're not really aiming for the stick-a-CD-in-and-you're-done crowd. If somebody can partition their drive, build and install a kernel and grub, configure make.conf, and build a system, then I'm not too concerned that they have to run some script to generate a key, sign their bootloader, and register that key with their firmware, or disable secure boot just to boot the install CD (though it sounds like some firmwares just pop up a warning and let you proceed, which is what my Chromebook does in dev mode). Rich
