Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:31:53 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL? |
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Well IANAL, but it seems not so cut-n-dried, at least.
Firmware is a program that executes on another processor, so no linking is taking place at all. It is analagous to shipping a binary-only program in your initrd, IMO.
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