From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] distproto: include the files in /lib/firmware/*
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2021 10:20:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A15408D1C9E7DB4469B8DE0038A7A77C@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m0RcgOctd3wLJa_FNajK1gkN4-NEDpyuvJe-NHjOFO3DYn1f8Ed7t8w4vkPouOZWR4XGE9YLFiKXrHMaSOzPfVQHFrRrg_ACJmcP2b9iEb8=@protonmail.com>
Quoth kemal <kemali13@protonmail.com>:
> > I think it'd make more sense to just build them into the kernel
> > in this case.
>
> If somebody does not have a 9front installation, they would have
> to install a 9front VM to build a kernel. In this case, putting
> it into /lib/firmware is better.
>
If they don't have a 9front installation, how are
they going to use this change? I don't think we're
going to start redistributing Intel's firmware,
because legal reasons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freely_redistributable_software
(I'm not a lawyer, it'd be nice to be wrong on this)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-07 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-07 17:02 kemal
2021-03-07 17:20 ` ori
2021-03-07 17:36 ` kemal
2021-03-07 18:20 ` ori [this message]
2021-03-07 18:58 ` kemal
2021-03-07 19:11 ` kemal
2021-03-08 10:59 ` kemal
2021-03-08 11:10 ` hiro
2021-03-08 11:58 ` sirjofri
2021-03-08 12:15 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-03-08 12:34 ` Julien Blanchard
2021-03-08 12:44 ` kemal
2021-03-08 12:55 ` hiro
2021-03-08 13:18 ` kemal
2021-03-08 13:28 ` hiro
2021-03-08 13:58 ` kemal
2021-03-08 14:03 ` hiro
2021-03-08 15:32 ` Stanley Lieber
2021-03-08 16:07 ` cinap_lenrek
2021-03-08 17:58 ` kemal
2021-03-08 15:29 ` Stanley Lieber
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