John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean by "legally"? Copyright infringement is a tort, and there > is no way they could win an infringement lawsuit against a distributor for > failing to redistribute the source for the blobs when they did not supply > it themselves and yet asserted that the work was under the GPL. > > The real risk (if any) is of being sued by a kernel author.
That's only a risk if we ship it linked with the kernel. Shipping a single blob of hex in non-free shouldn't be a problem in that respect. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]