Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Anthony Towns writes: > It's not able to be modified, it's not going to be a part of Debian > anyway. What's your point? Ok, perhaps I misunderstood. Please forgive me...I was assuming that it was being discussed here precisely because it might be part of Debian. What exactly is its current st

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But there is annother difficult. To write BIOS we use assembler because > we have much control to hardware, to write microcode I think they don't > use any language, to be more direct. They write (maybe) directly the bit > or byte. Thus there exists only bi

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:13:22AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > The license (for non-FREE section): > > / Copyright Intel Corporation, 1995, 96, 97, 98, 99, > > 2000, 2001. > > / > > / These microcode updates are distributed for the sole > > purpose of

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 11:41:26AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:13:22AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > > > The license (for non-FREE section): > > > / These microcode updates are distributed for the sole > > > purpose of > > > /

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Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe, but there would be very little practical benefit from having > DFSG-free microcode. Most of the arguments for free software don't > really apply to microcode. I work for a company that designs > microprocessors, so I might be interested in

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Raul Miller
Um.. just to reiterate what's going on here: For Debian to distribute the microcode at all, we need permission to distribute it[1]. For Debian to distribute the microcode *as a part of Debian*, we'd need the microcode to meet the DFSG. [No one (other than Thomas Bushnell) is advocating that the

libfpx licensing

2001-06-01 Thread Filip Van Raemdonck
Hi, I am working on a package for libfpx - the FlashPIX toolkit. I'm not sure about the license of the library though. Is it DFSG free? Regards, Filip PS. Please CC me on replies, I am not subscribed to this list. -- I only get 13M/sec off my wide LVD 10k rpm scsi drive well, obviously you

Re: libfpx licensing

2001-06-01 Thread Walter Landry
> Hi, > > I am working on a package for libfpx - the FlashPIX toolkit. I'm not sure > about the license of the library though. > Is it DFSG free? > > Regards, > > Filip It looks like the BSD with the (obnoxious) advertising clause. It also has the choice of law clause. It is DFSG free and can

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote: > > Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2) It is difficult to say that microcode is a program: > >there are surelly many entry points (one per instruction), > >many exit point. Instruction are executed partly in parallel,... > >It is too h