Moritz Mühlenhoff
2011-Aug-22 10:02 UTC
[Xen-devel] Avoiding the use of test signing for the GPLPV drivers for 64 bit Windows
Hi, we''ve been investigating ways to deploy the GPLPV drivers for Windows 2008 w/o the need to activate the test mode (not for strictly technical reasons; the drivers work fine but some third party applications void their warranty if run under test mode and the mandatory note on the desktop may lead to user confusion). I found a mailing lis thread, where a similar scenario has been discussed for the libusb drivers. The relevant bits start here: http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-td3335877.html Microsoft doesn''t permit GPLv2 und GPLv3 drivers in their Windows Logo Program (which is a prerequisite for WHQL certification). However in this thread someone from Wind River contacted Microsoft and they pointed to the possibility to sign the driver with a certificate issues by a CA instead of the WHQL signatures (the full document is attached to the second link): http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-tp335877p3337666.html http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-tp3335877p3341534.html In my understanding this certificate would be a SPC certificate http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff552299%28v=vs.85%29.aspx http://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_software_publisher.xml Later on in the thread it''s being confirmed that this procedure allows the installation of the driver w/o popups and activation of the test mode: http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-tp3335877p3339827.html Is anyone already building and signing the GPLPV drivers with that procedure? Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Mühlenhoff muehlenhoff@univention.de Open Source Software Engineer and Consultant Univention GmbH Linux for Your Business fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 Mary-Somerville-Str.1 28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 http://www.univention.de _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-Aug-22 13:40 UTC
Re: [Xen-devel] Avoiding the use of test signing for the GPLPV drivers for 64 bit Windows
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 12:02:21PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:> Hi, > we''ve been investigating ways to deploy the GPLPV drivers for Windows 2008 > w/o the need to activate the test mode (not for strictly technical reasons; > the drivers work fine but some third party applications void their warranty > if run under test mode and the mandatory note on the desktop may lead to user > confusion). > > I found a mailing lis thread, where a similar scenario has been discussed > for the libusb drivers. The relevant bits start here: > http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-td3335877.html > > Microsoft doesn''t permit GPLv2 und GPLv3 drivers in their Windows Logo > Program (which is a prerequisite for WHQL certification). However in this > thread someone from Wind River contacted Microsoft and they pointed to the > possibility to sign the driver with a certificate issues by a CA instead of > the WHQL signatures (the full document is attached to the second link): > > http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-tp335877p3337666.html > http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-tp3335877p3341534.html > > In my understanding this certificate would be a SPC certificate > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff552299%28v=vs.85%29.aspx > http://www.certum.eu/certum/cert,offer_software_publisher.xml > > Later on in the thread it''s being confirmed that this procedure allows the > installation of the driver w/o popups and activation of the test mode: > http://libusb.6.n5.nabble.com/WHQL-Testing-Agreement-and-GPLv3-conflicts-tp3335877p3339827.html > > Is anyone already building and signing the GPLPV drivers with that procedure?Hm sounds like that is exactly what the Red Hat folks had done: http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/kvm-guest-drivers-windows.git;a=blob;f=VirtIO/LICENSE;h=808dba85afaccc31dac21863d2cd4dd4a3b7d29f;hb=HEAD> > Cheers, > Moritz > -- > Moritz Mühlenhoff muehlenhoff@univention.de > Open Source Software Engineer and Consultant > Univention GmbH Linux for Your Business fon: +49 421 22 232- 0 > Mary-Somerville-Str.1 28359 Bremen fax: +49 421 22 232-99 > http://www.univention.de > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel_______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel