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TrueNAS build system going closed source
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Pardon my ignorance, but why would something have to be closed source in order to optionally provide secure boot? Couldn't you provide the secure-boot-enabled binaries in addition to the source for everything except the boot keys?
You sign binaries, right? You don't sign source.
If anyone builds from source they would just have to go through the arduous signing process themselves.
This is also something I don't fully understand. Unfortunately it's not easy to find what the requirements are to get a bootloader signed by MS. It's possible I'm mixing up these requirements with requirements for something else that requires a NDA, but it's really not that simple to find the requirements online.
It's possible that the latter is actually the case and it's not secure boot that requires it to be closed source. It's also possible I'm entirely mistaken and they don't need to make it closed source at all. I wish TrueNAS would give more details why it needs to be closed source - whether it's due to a NDA or whatnot.