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Bug#239952: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?

Jeff Garzik

2004-03-25, 6:38 pm

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.

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