Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:47:07 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL? |
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:31:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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.
My point in this mail was a bit "besides the main firmware discussion":
I was not asking whether it's OK to ship this file in the kernel sources, I was asking whether the contents of the file is really under the GPL as stated in the header of this file if it contains this binary code.
cu Adrian
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