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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:31:53PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
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> 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.
My point in this mail was a bit "besides the main firmware discussion":
I was not asking whether it's OK to ship this file in the kernel
sources, I was asking whether the contents of the file is really under
the GPL as stated in the header of this file if it contains this binary
code.
cu
Adrian
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