On Jun 9, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Firmware that happens to be aggregated for convenient delivery and > installation is no more a part of the GPL'd work than firmware that is > already in your machine That's missing the point. It's not so much about the firmware, it's about the GPLed work that depends on it. If you can't "just take the firmware out", and there's no way to obtain the GPL'ed allegedly-separate work, how could the claim of 'mere aggregation' hold any water? Aggregation of what separate works? Where are they? > No, the GPL applies to components that actually are parts of a work as > whole or derivatives. Firmware is something separate, just carried > along for the ride. No, your honor, this is not a book that I printed for sale. It's just a bunch of pages from unrelated works that I stapled/bound together in large quantities and offered to book retailers in exchange for pieces of paper of a different color. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
