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Re: Moglen on kernel firmware blobs



Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> schrieb/wrote:
> [blobs] From the point of view of the GPL work called the Linux
> kernel, they're just data.

Apart from the fact that the data is meant to be executed by some
computing device, it does not matter if you call it a program or just
data. The GPL requires "the preferred form of the work for making
modifications" to be available for both data and programs.

Claus
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