License inquiry – intended reuse in CheckCA2023 GUI tool

[claude-boucher]

Hi,

I am developing CheckCA2023, an open-source PowerShell/WPF GUI tool that helps enterprise IT administrators monitor the Microsoft CA 2023 Secure Boot certificate migration.
Repo: https://github.com/claude-boucher/CheckCA2023

I would like to integrate the SVN reading technique found in Get-BootMgrSecurityVersion.ps1 (reading the BOOTMGRSECURITYVERSIONNUMBER RT_RCDATA resource via LoadLibraryEx P/Invoke) into my tool, with full attribution to your repository.

I noticed that the repository does not currently declare a license. Could you clarify under what terms reuse is permitted? Adding a license file (e.g. MIT) to the repo would make this straightforward for anyone wishing to build on your work.

In any case, I will credit your repository in my README, CHANGELOG, and source code comments.

Thank you for the excellent work on this toolset — it has been a valuable reference for the community.

[cjee21]

License of code written by me are all MIT. License is stated in the header of each file. This repository also contains code written by others (including code I initially took from elsewhere but committed using my ID which I also indicated in the file headers) which has license that I do not know (they did not specify) along with binaries and json from Microsoft that may be under different license. That's why the source or license of each file is stated in the header and there is no overall license.

[cjee21]

Get-BootMgrSecurityVersion.psm1 is mostly generated with Google AI with some codes added by me. The part written by me is for sure MIT. Not sure what license AI generated code is under but if it can be determined by person who prompted, I choose MIT.

[cjee21]

By the way, be aware that Get-AuthenticodeSignature does not actually return the cert embedded in the file if the file is also catalogue signed. It also does not support dual-signed EFI files. VersionInfo.FileVersion also may not actually be the actual version embedded in the file depending on the location of the file. I have seen the version change to a newer version when I move the bootmgfw out of ESP.

[cjee21]

You can see here the version is not the actual version of the file.