Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-07 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On the other hand, if we can't modify, what purpose is served > by us distributing it at all? It's available from the Intel > website, right? It's just a file that gets installed by the loader, > right? There's no integration issue. There are two advantages

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Jun-01, 16:02 (CDT), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [No one (other than Thomas Bushnell) is advocating that the microcode > be distributed under the DFSG.] Well, I think I would *advocate* that it be distributed under the DFSG. I suspect that the benefits of doing so are perhaps l

Re: Microcode license [#3]

2001-06-07 Thread Steve Greenland
On 01-Jun-01, 04:41 (CDT), Giacomo Catenazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony Towns wrote: > > Note that Intel's claims as to what you can and can't do with the > > microcode aren't necessarily legally binding. > > I don't undertand this sentence. The license cannot forbid actions that are