Re: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
08 May 2003 23:19:51 +0100

On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 19:26, root@mauve.demon.co.uk wrote:
> So if you've got a CPU, that you have to load the microcode into before
> fully booting, you can't run linux on it natively, unless the CPU maker
> provides full microcode source?

I guess it would depend on the circumstances and how its distributed

> And when is a binary a binary, and not a string constant?

When is a book a collection of words, when is it a collection of ideas,
when is it a collection of bitmaps - same question and copyright law
mostly doesn't care.

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