Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263637AbUCYXHv (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:07:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263680AbUCYW5O (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:57:14 -0500 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:44706 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263637AbUCYWzr (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 17:55:47 -0500 Message-ID: <40636302.6080807@stesmi.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 23:53:54 +0100 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Adrian Bunk , 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> <40635DD9.8090809@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <40635DD9.8090809@pobox.com> 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: 563 Lines: 17 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 - 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/