[OpenBIOS] Licensing of the code.

Dean Gaudet dgaudet-list-gnu-bios at arctic.org
Thu Feb 19 18:13:41 CET 1998


See http://www.techweb.com/wire/news/june/0629bug.html for example. 
There's probably a press release on intel's site, but I can't be bothered
to wait for their pages to load, they seem to be running real slow today. 

Dean

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Dave Cinege wrote:

> Dean Gaudet wrote:
> > 
> > I think a big sticking point will be the license Intel requires for the
> > microcode update software.  That license may dictate the license you'll
> > have to use for this project.  In fact that license may even preclude a
> > free software project.
> > 
> > Without the microcode updates you may have a hard time supporting intel
> > chips.
> 
> I never heard of this before. What does this microcode bios code do?
> It is just used for updating it?
> 
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