* Stefan Reinauer stepan@openbios.org [050107 15:40]:
Definitely! Pragmatic decisions are not always those with the nicest design, but in this case it will no doubt help LinuxBIOS gain a lot of momentum against the other alternatives (ie. http://www.tianocore.org/)
They are _really_ _honestly_ making their EFI stuff _freely_ available:
Excerpt of the Usage Agreements for the source code
Grant of License to Use [..] You acknowledge and agree that You will not, directly or indirectly: (i) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the underlying source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of the Software; (ii) modify, translate, or create derivative works based on the Software; (iii) rent, lease, distribute, sell, resell or assign, or otherwise transfer rights to the Software; or (iv) remove any proprietary notices in the Software. [..]
IANAL, but do I get it right that before I am allowed to see their sources for _participating_ in their neat little project I have to accept that I am not going to _modify_ them or discover the way they work?
The derivative work clause almost seems like nothing compared to this.
There are 17 more paragraphs which I did not even dare reading anymore.
Poor guys who made the mistake clicking on "I agree".. "All your bases are belong to us".
Stefan