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You mean routers?

You mean routers?

Posted Mar 9, 2011 20:22 UTC (Wed) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270)
In reply to: You mean routers? by khim
Parent article: Red Hat and the GPL

"Mere aggregation" isn't about whether the separate pieces are all needed to make the product work, it's about whether the pieces are all piece of one program. At least in some situations there's an argument that the binary blob is not part of the program, it's just a piece of data that the program installs in another device. [IANAL and I haven't read any cases that get close to this question.]


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