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From: Dumitru Ciobarcianu <Dumitru.Ciobarcianu@iNES.RO>
To: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	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: Bug#239952: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:43:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1080294208.27237.2.camel@LNX.iNES.RO> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4063EEC1.9080203@stesmi.com>

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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:50 +0100, Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
> /*
>      This file is under the GPL, yada yada
> */
> #include "things.h"
> 
> void some_func(void)
> {
>    does_something();
> }
> 
> char firmware[]={0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07};
> 
> void upload_firmware(void)
> {
>    do_upload(firmware);
> }
> 
> --
> 
> Then it seems clear to me that the firmware is under the GPL because it
> is PART of the GPL'd file.


If you're right, then the "binary" of the firmware it's GPL, not the
source of the firmware, because that's what you have in this case :)

You can have that ? GPL the binary but not the source ? :)

-- 
Cioby

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-26  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ 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
2004-03-26  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           ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu [this message]
2004-03-26 10:14             ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26  0:33       ` Bug#239952: " 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  2:59             ` 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
2004-03-25 22:54     ` Chris Cheney
2004-03-26  0:41       ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26  9:09         ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 13:16         ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:19           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 14:29             ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:38               ` Stefan Smietanowski
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 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

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