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From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
Subject: Bug#239952: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:53:54 +0100
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 
> 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.

Except the firmware itself is GPL in this case.

// Stefan