Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, 239952@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:53:54 +0100
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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 linkingis taking place at all. It is analagous to shipping a binary-onlyprogram in your initrd, IMO.


Except the firmware itself is GPL in this case.

// Stefan

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