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The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

Posted Aug 17, 2011 16:43 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction by xilun
Parent article: The Extensible Firmware Interface - an introduction

You are basically whining that EFI's core is not licensed under the GPL but BSD. This is correct.

> ... is not open source at all

Still whining but plain wrong as anyone can see.

> Depending on the cpu and chipset vendor,...

Usual and well-known consequence of a BSD license.

PS: we miss your fair comparison with older BIOSes.


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