On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:11 +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Ralink Tech (www.ralink.com.tw) took a design decision to incorporate > the firmware into an EEPROM on-board, allowing their driver to be > GPL'd
Binary only firmware and firmware loading is perfectly compatible with the GPL, as long as the vendor includes a license to redistribute the firmware. The problem was that vendors were distributing the firmware embedded in the driver code as a big hex string, without a separate license, which made the firmware fall under the GPL, which make the whole kernel undistributable as there's no source code for the firmware. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
