Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:53:54 +0100 | From | Stefan Smietanowski <> | Subject | Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL? |
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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.
Except the firmware itself is GPL in this case.
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