Re: [gNewSense-users] suspected kernel's firmware

[Karl Goetz]

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 11:28 +0100, Henrik Sundberg wrote:
> 2008/3/2, Karl Goetz <address@hidden>:
> > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 03:32 +0100, marco.chieppa-crap wrote:
> >  > Hi!
> >  >
> >  > ###################
> >  > These microcode data are placed under the terms of the GNU
> >  > General Public License.
> 
> It states to be GPL:ed. How can it be non free?

imho, because of the following paragraph:

> >  >
> >  > Copyright (c) 1995-2000 FORE Systems, Inc., as an
> >  > unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted or
> >  > public access to these materials which are a trade secret of
> >  > FORE Systems, Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliates
> >  > (together referred to as "FORE"), and which may not be
> >  > reproduced, used, sold or transferred to any third party
> >  > without FORE's prior written consent. All rights reserved.
> >
> >

-- 
Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au

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