Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263812AbUCZBei (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:34:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263922AbUCZBeb (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:34:31 -0500 Received: from sa-2.airstreamcomm.net ([64.33.192.162]:41997 "EHLO sa-2.airstreamcomm.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263812AbUCZBdu (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:33:50 -0500 To: 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> <20040326003339.GD25059@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <81ptb0wh45.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp> From: John Hasler Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 19:39:33 -0600 In-Reply-To: <81ptb0wh45.wl@omega.webmasters.gr.jp> (GOTO Masanori's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:07:38 +0900") Message-ID: <871xngbd4a.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 737 Lines: 21 GOTO Masanori writes: > But think about: why can we distribute assembler only code in linux > kernel? Was it not written in assembler? If so, there is no problem. > If they insist this source code is GPL, then I think this code is covered > under GPL at least for this case. If it's GPL, then we can derive the > newer firmware code from this original ql2100_fw.c freely. I don't follow you. What source code? -- John Hasler john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI - 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/