Re: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues.

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 19:26, [e-mail] 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.