Francesco Poli wrote: > IMHO the best solution would be to contact the firmware copyright holder > and persuade her to rilicense it under a GPL-compatible license (so that > every doubt would go away immediately).
This would not solve the problem, unless they also released the source of the firmware. Without that source, the firmware would either be non-distributable (if under a license like the GPL that requires source) or non-free (if the license does not require source). - Josh Triplett
