From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: Dumitru Ciobarcianu <Dumitru.Ciobarcianu@ines.ro>
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: Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:14:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4064027D.30704@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080294208.27237.2.camel@LNX.iNES.RO>
Hi Dumitru.
>>/*
>> 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 ? :)
Not as far as I know, you can't put the resulting binary under a
different license than the source, but hey, IANAL :)
That would make all sorts of nasty implications if it was possible.
// Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-26 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ 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 ` 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
2004-03-26 10:14 ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2004-03-26 0:33 ` 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
2004-03-26 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 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 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
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