Re: ipw2200 [was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel]

[Horst von Brand]

Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[...]

> There is an interesting licensing issue, creating a linux kernel image that 
> contains an initramfs that contains binary only firmware.  I can happily 
> generate one here and not care, but does distributing such a kernel violate 
> the GPL?

Some distributions (e.g. INSERT) ship a CD image with ipw2x00 firmware.
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