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

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Christophe Fergeau
<cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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

I already replied to that:

"The problem is that having it configurable would mean that we can't
have a static info on the script about the signature requirement (see
"installer: API to query signed device driver requirement" patch).

I don't really see this a real security feature of windows but more a
control feature of Microsoft as they have made it impossible for free
drivers to be signed. So not very much motivated to do a lot of rework
to accommodate configurability here."

I'm not going to make it configurable unless you can suggest a
solution for the problem mentioned in the first para.
-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124