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Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
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: Adrian Bunk <
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: Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
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: Jeff Garzik <
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: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:31:53 -0500
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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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