Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263697AbUCYWee (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:34:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263677AbUCYWcl (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:32:41 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:54478 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263682AbUCYWcJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:32:09 -0500 Message-ID: <40635DD9.8090809@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:31:53 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: 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? References: <20040325082949.GA3376@gondor.apana.org.au> <20040325220803.GZ16746@fs.tum.de> In-Reply-To: <20040325220803.GZ16746@fs.tum.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 474 Lines: 14 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/