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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
	Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues.
Date: 06 May 2003 16:19:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052234355.1202.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305061139020.6723@chaos>

On Maw, 2003-05-06 at 16:48, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I don't see anybody sending the contents of the PALs, ASICs, and
> other components on your motherboard. Modern machines have all
> those bits loaded upon power-up. Before the power is applied,

Those aren't shipped as part of the OS and that seems to be the
big question if you talk to legally qualified people about this
matter


  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-06 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-06 11:38 Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues Simon Kelley
2003-05-06 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 13:28   ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-06 12:44     ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 13:42   ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-06 12:19 ` Matti Aarnio
2003-05-06 15:16   ` J. Bruce Fields
2003-05-06 15:42     ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-06 15:21       ` Alan Cox
2003-05-07  6:52         ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-07  9:07           ` Filip Van Raemdonck
2003-05-07  9:54             ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-08  8:01               ` Filip Van Raemdonck
2003-05-08  9:44                 ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-08 10:56                   ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 15:48     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-06 15:19       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-05-08 10:20 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-06 12:54 Downing, Thomas
2003-05-06 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-06 15:04 Adam J. Richter
2003-05-07 11:59 Adam J. Richter
2003-05-07 14:08 ` Simon Kelley
2003-05-07 17:14 Adam J. Richter
2003-05-08 13:20 Downing, Thomas
2003-05-08 15:59 Adam J. Richter
2003-05-08 16:09 ` Jörn Engel
2003-05-08 16:35 Adam J. Richter
2003-05-08 18:26 ` root
2003-05-08 22:19   ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 16:51 Adam J. Richter
2003-05-08 23:36 Adam J. Richter

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