You don't need a license for an ISA to compile for it. You need a license only if you're developing a CPU that uses that ISA.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019, 19:34 Shahryar Afifi <shahryaraf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > With respect to all the contributors, developers, hobbyist and users, > who made GNU/Linux and Debian and all other distributions possible, > here lies a humble, ignorance and yet curious question. > > Are all binaries in the kernel code were writing from scratch? Are > there any binary blobs in the kernel that it was given to developers? > If amd64 license is not free, how is it that we have amd64 microcode in > the debian free? and if they are not the same, are we using the full > potential of our hardware? > > I apologize in advance for my ignorance. > Thank you. > >
