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Re:Open source firmware is important for security by executesorder66 on Friday May 10, 2019 @02:02AM (#19875432)
Hi,

Please can you post the link to the github repo? I'm can't seem to find it.

Also, which license is it published under? How are people allowed to publish a fork without publishing the code?

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Re:Open source firmware is important for security by jabl on Friday May 10, 2019 @03:09AM (#19875730)
> Please can you post the link to the github repo? I'm can't seem to find it.

https://github.com/tianocore/edk2

Although https://www.tianocore.org/ is probably a better link to get started.

> Also, which license is it published under?

BSD + a patent grant, https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/blob/master/License.txt

> How are people allowed to publish a fork without publishing the code?

That's a feature of BSD style licenses. Copyleft-style licenses such as GPL avoid this problem.

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Re:Open source firmware is important for security by thedaemon on Friday May 10, 2019 @10:23AM (#19877962)
This is not a problem. BSD is a superior license model.
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