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DateThu, 25 Mar 2004 17:31:53 -0500
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
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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