From: GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, 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?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:07:38 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81ptb0wh45.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040326003339.GD25059@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
At Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:33:39 +0000,
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I realise there's a grey area between "magic data you write to a device"
> and "a program that is executed on a different processor". For example,
> palette data for a frame buffer. But nobody's arguing for that grey
> area here -- it's clearly a program without source code that Debian
> can't distribute.
Well, I also think this is grey area.
But think about: why can we distribute assembler only code in linux
kernel? It's near to binary form (objdump -d is your friend).
If they insist this source code is GPL, then I think this code is
covered under GPL at least for this case. If it's GPL, then we can
derive the newer firmware code from this original ql2100_fw.c freely.
Regards,
-- gotom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 1:07 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
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 [this message]
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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