Re: [gNewSense-users] ATI blobs

[Jason Self]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Dmitry Samoyloff <address@hidden> wrote:

> The license of these firmwares contains "No reverse engineering,
> decompilation, or disassembly of this Software is permitted.".

Are we looking at the same one? I'm looking at the two links mentioned here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00404.html

That email thread says that this is the microcode for AMD video cards
which is required in order to have 2D/3D acceleration with otherwise
free drivers. This text is at the beginning of each of those files.

/*
  * Copyright 2008-2009 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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