Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263887AbTEFQFg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:05:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263889AbTEFQFg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:05:36 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:26240 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263887AbTEFQFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 12:05:33 -0400 Subject: Re: Binary firmware in the kernel - licensing issues. From: Alan Cox To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , Matti Aarnio , Simon Kelley , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <3EB79ECE.4010709@thekelleys.org.uk> <20030506121954.GO24892@mea-ext.zmailer.org> <20030506151644.GA19898@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1052234355.1202.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 06 May 2003 16:19:16 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 14 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/