Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263999AbUCZKPj (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:15:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263995AbUCZKPj (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:15:39 -0500 Received: from 1-2-2-1a.has.sth.bostream.se ([82.182.130.86]:64166 "EHLO K-7.stesmi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263999AbUCZKPe (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2004 05:15:34 -0500 Message-ID: <4064027D.30704@stesmi.com> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:14:21 +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: Dumitru Ciobarcianu CC: David Woodhouse , Jeff Garzik , 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> <1080260235.3643.103.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> <4063EEC1.9080203@stesmi.com> <1080294208.27237.2.camel@LNX.iNES.RO> In-Reply-To: <1080294208.27237.2.camel@LNX.iNES.RO> 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: 1050 Lines: 42 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 - 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/