Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751019AbVLLBhP (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:37:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751013AbVLLBgz (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:36:55 -0500 Received: from quelen.inf.utfsm.cl ([200.1.19.194]:15086 "EHLO quelen.inf.utfsm.cl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750996AbVLLBgr (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Dec 2005 20:36:47 -0500 Message-Id: <200512111626.jBBGQoEB014724@quelen.inf.utfsm.cl> To: Rob Landley cc: Pavel Machek , Bill Davidsen , Mark Lord , Adrian Bunk , David Ranson , Steven Rostedt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Andree Subject: Re: ipw2200 [was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel] In-Reply-To: Message from Rob Landley of "Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:30:30 MDT." <200512102330.31572.rob@landley.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.1; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 18) Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:26:50 -0300 From: Horst von Brand Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 21 Rob Landley wrote: [...] > There is an interesting licensing issue, creating a linux kernel image that > contains an initramfs that contains binary only firmware. I can happily > generate one here and not care, but does distributing such a kernel violate > the GPL? Some distributions (e.g. INSERT) ship a CD image with ipw2x00 firmware. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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/