Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:07:38 +0900 | From | GOTO Masanori <> | Subject | Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL? |
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At Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:33:39 +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I realise there's a grey area between "magic data you write to a device" > and "a program that is executed on a different processor". For example, > palette data for a frame buffer. But nobody's arguing for that grey > area here -- it's clearly a program without source code that Debian > can't distribute.
Well, I also think this is grey area.
But think about: why can we distribute assembler only code in linux kernel? It's near to binary form (objdump -d is your friend).
If they insist this source code is GPL, then I think this code is covered under GPL at least for this case. If it's GPL, then we can derive the newer firmware code from this original ql2100_fw.c freely.
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