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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
Cc: 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?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:31:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40635DD9.8090809@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040325220803.GZ16746@fs.tum.de>


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.




  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-25 22:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1B6Izr-0002Ai-00@r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de>
     [not found] ` <20040325082949.GA3376@gondor.apana.org.au>
2004-03-25 22:08   ` Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL? Adrian Bunk
2004-03-25 22:31     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-25 22:47       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-25 22:53       ` Bug#239952: " Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-25 22:53         ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26  0:33         ` John Hasler
2004-03-26  0:17       ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-26  1:30         ` John Hasler
2004-03-26  8:50         ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26  9:43           ` Bug#239952: " Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-03-26  9:43             ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-03-26 10:14             ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26  0:33       ` Bug#239952: " Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-26  0:33         ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-26  1:07         ` GOTO Masanori
2004-03-26  1:39           ` John Hasler
2004-03-26  2:06           ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26  2:06             ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26  2:59             ` Chris Cheney
2004-03-26  3:23               ` John Hasler
2004-03-26  8:53           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26  9:12             ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 13:59               ` John Hasler
2004-03-27  9:19                 ` John Bradford
2004-03-26  0:41       ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26 11:20         ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-03-26 11:55           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-25 22:54     ` Chris Cheney
2004-03-26  0:41       ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26  0:41         ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26  9:09         ` John Bradford
2004-03-26  9:09           ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 13:16         ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 13:16           ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:19           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 14:29             ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:29               ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:38               ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 14:55                 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:55                   ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 15:03                   ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 15:10                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-26 15:22                     ` Guy
2004-03-26 15:22                       ` Guy
2004-03-26 15:53                     ` Gabor Gombas
2004-03-26 21:57               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-30 11:39             ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-30 14:02               ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-30 18:11               ` Goswin von Brederlow
2004-04-02 20:53                 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-26 15:04 Matt Reuther
2004-03-26 15:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-03-26 22:10   ` David Schwartz
     [not found] <8RnZwD.A.91B.qHYaAB@murphy>
2004-03-30 14:57 ` Humberto Massa
2004-03-30 16:51   ` Henning Makholm
2004-03-30 16:51     ` Henning Makholm

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