On 9 May 2002, alex wrote:
>
> I've been in discussion with Alcatel about getting a license to
> distribute the microcode with the drivers. They have been helpful so far
> and have a draft License currently being looked over by their lawyers.
>
> At the moment the license is along the lines of "royalty free as long as
> you don't profit from it" which I have pointed out may cause problems
> for distributions. They are having their lawyers consider what can be
> done. I have two questions for the rest of the developers though:
>
> 1. Has anybody got any other examples of microcode distribution with
> open-source stuff? Are their any microcode bits of hardware supported by
> Debian for example? Will we only ever get into non-free?
>
While I am sure there will be "purists" who will say that this is
non-free, I think, in this instance, this is "free" software.
After all, if the microcode was hard-coded into the frog then you
would still need to buy a frog (and hence the microcode) to use
the driver.
> 2. Are there any Open Source (and free!) legal services or lawyers that
> will give a license the once over from an open source point of view?
>
FSF?
Regards,
Tim.
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