From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
rt2400-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:32:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124497953.25424.112.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d22205081711115b404a9b@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:11 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> Ralink Tech (www.ralink.com.tw) took a design decision to incorporate
> the firmware into an EEPROM on-board, allowing their driver to be
> GPL'd
Binary only firmware and firmware loading is perfectly compatible with
the GPL, as long as the vendor includes a license to redistribute the
firmware. The problem was that vendors were distributing the firmware
embedded in the driver code as a big hex string, without a separate
license, which made the firmware fall under the GPL, which make the
whole kernel undistributable as there's no source code for the firmware.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-20 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-17 18:11 Atheros and rt2x00 driver Daniel J Blueman
2005-08-18 20:58 ` Mateusz Berezecki
2005-08-18 21:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-08-31 7:56 ` Florian Weimer
2005-08-31 8:16 ` Mateusz Berezecki
2005-08-31 8:28 ` Florian Weimer
2005-08-31 10:25 ` Mateusz Berezecki
2005-08-31 9:23 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-08-31 10:34 ` Mateusz Berezecki
2005-08-20 0:32 ` Lee Revell [this message]
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2005-08-17 17:15 Jon Jahren
2005-08-17 17:42 ` joebob
2005-08-17 18:39 ` David S. Miller
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