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From: Dumitru Ciobarcianu <Dumitru.Ciobarcianu@iNES.RO>
Subject: Bug#239952: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:43:28 +0200
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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
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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"
>=20
> void some_func(void)
> {
>    does_something();
> }
>=20
> char firmware[]=3D{0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06, 0x07};
>=20
> void upload_firmware(void)
> {
>    do_upload(firmware);
> }
>=20
> --
>=20
> 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 ? :)

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Cioby

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