Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 11:38 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >> The iwl4965 firmware changed 2 times incompatible since the driver >> exists. > > That makes me wonder just how separate the driver and firmware are. If > they are tightly coupled then the firmware may become subject to the GPL > as well.
Firmware and driver do not run on the same CPU. There is no 'linkage' between them. With a client/server application, a GPL client does not enforce the server to be GPL, even if client and server are tightly coupled. Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
