On 18-Jul-2006 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Giuliano Pochini wrote: >> After a talk with Richard Stallman, who said it is not correct to link a >> binary image into a GPL program even if is just dumped onto disk, here you >> are this patch that makes fw_writer to load and parse the C sources >> containing the images instead of including them at compile time. It supports >> both the "sources" that are already part of alsa-firmware and the original >> files downloadable from the Echoaudio web site. >> > > What is the problem exactly? > All the files DSP/LoaderDSP.c etc. have a GPL license on them. I don't > see what the problem is, unless you have wrongly attached the GPL > license to them? fw_loader.c #include's those files. The licence says the author permits the inclusion of the firmwares in a GPL project. But rms says it is misleading because the GPL requires the firmwares to be in source form. I do not completely agree with that, but this patch solves the issue (and fw_loader.c is 200 bytes shorter 8D). -- Giuliano. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
