On 13286 March 1977, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> > Without limiting the foregoing, the Software may implement third party >> > technologies for which You must obtain licenses from parties other >> > than AMD. You agree that AMD has not obtained or conveyed to You, and >> > that You shall be responsible for obtaining the rights to use and/or >> > distribute the applicable underlying intellectual property rights >> > related to the third party technologies. These third party >> > technologies are not licensed hereunder. >> , ... you need to make sure that this is fullfilled. IE. do they have >> other stuff with shit licenses included? If so THEN there may be >> trouble, unless that license grants distribute rights. > Given the fact that this is microprocessor microcode we are talking about, > AMD better have conveyed to us EVERY patent license required to use their > processors and update their microcode when we bought them.
Tell that to AMD, not me. >> That one does not make any fun, but its limited with "If You use the >> software". > Which is just about every Debian system that installs firmware-nonfree, if > "use" can be interpreted as "installing the package". Yes, but we are talking about non-free, not main. For main we make sure that users can just install it and be happy. For non-free thats up to the user to (double-)check. > Anyway, should I raise a ruckus upstream about this? I do not feel > confortable being the maintainer of a package with the above EAR crap in its > license. About the patent/licenses stuff above, you should, I think. -- bye, Joerg 00:00:11 <LupusE> goebelmeier: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html <- warum steht hier 'mplayer'? ist das eine whishlist? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bo5mk0us....@gkar.ganneff.de