Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?

[Stefan Smietanowski]

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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