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

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

Stefan Smietanowski

2004-03-25, 6:42 pm

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

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