If the license compatiability issue can't be resolved, it would be ok to just ship the NPE-B file in non-free, rather than building it from "source". The GPLed code does not actually end up in the compiled file, it's just used to dump the microcode out of memory and into the file. (Which makes me wonder if there's truely a GPL incompatability in this case -- there's a certian analogy here to using a GPLed text editor, which doesn't care what license of text it edits, despite sharing memory with it. Is there any real "linking" going on? How is IxNpeMicrocode.h different from a GPLed perl program that reads the .c and dumps out the microcode?) Another option of course would be to rewrite IxNpeMicrocode.h, but I'd rather not spend that much time on this. And of course I have no reason to mention these possibilies aside from competeness, as hopefully the author will respond quickly and this will be resolved. -- see shy jo
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