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From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Qlogic/FC firmware
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:04:56 +0200
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> > 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