On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 11:53:54PM +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > 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. If that is the case, we cannot distribute it at all. No "should we or shouldn't we" - it's not legal. You cannot redistribute a binary image that is licensed under the GPL if you have no way to provide the source for it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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