Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?

[Stefan Smietanowski]

Hi Pavel.

> > But the firmware didn't appear out of thin air - someone wrote it
> > somehow. If that's using a hex editor or inside the C code doesn't
> > matter, but most likely they used some other language like either
> > C or assembly (no, not all firmware is written using assembly), and
> > there are cases where some are in fact written using a hex editor but
> > I can't remember any that has been for the last 30 or so years but
> > I'm sure there has been cases where there hasn't been a working
> > assembler.
>
>
> If my code contains picture of human, do I have to provide his DNA, too?

No, that's where we come into the whole issue of IP.

If I have a picture of you then you can always LICENSE your IP to me,
but I don't think you NEED to license it to me :)

Unless you consider your IP to be in the public domain.

// Stefan
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/