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Re: Bug#239952: kernel-source-2.6.4: qla2xxx contains non-free firmware



On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:41:07PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:01:14AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> -snip-
> > Sophistry. It's clearly the form you "preferred" when you were writing
> > it. The GPL does not require that programs be well-written, it merely
> > requires a level playing field.
> 
> So binary firmware is ok as long as it was not the vendor that wrote
> the driver? Wow isn't that ingenious. :P

Actually a reverse engineered driver with blobs in it is probably
illegal since it is reproducing copyrighted code, I forgot to mention
that earlier. :)

BTW - I know of at least one other driver in the linux kernels like
that, the one I wrote: kernel/drivers/usb/media/vicam.ko

Chris

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