Re: Qlogic/FC firmware

From: Oliver Neukum (Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 01:04:56 EST


> > Oh for the love of God, will you people stop drooling over the fucking
> > GPL? It's *firmware*... it's just a bunch of bits. It's *not* a program
> > the kernel executes. It's just data. (__init_data to be exact.)
>
> Look, if its not distributable then its no good to anyone.

Are you allowed to distribute an initrd that contains it, build from it and
GNU tools ?

        Regards
                Oliver
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