Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 09:02:25AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> I would be much more convinced if I saw an argument from the
> GPL-incompatible-firmware-is-OK side as to why the GPL prohibits
> distributing linkages of GPL'd and GPL-incompatible code.
The interpretation favoured by kernel hackers is that anything that runs
on the host CPU is part of the program, and anything that runs on the
card is just data for the program to operate on.
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