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From: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Subject: Re: tg3 driver fails
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:51:16 -0400
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On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:06:37 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
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> like this one. And no, ladies and gentlemen; the GPL is *not* a valid
> license for binary firmware.  The key wording here is "The source code for

I should be more explicit; I'm talking about binary-only firmware. 
Obviously, if the firmware source is made available, the GPL is a fine
choice of license.