Re: ipw2200 [was Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel]
From: Horst von Brand
Date: Sun Dec 11 2005 - 20:37:03 EST
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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