Debian's election season: old firmware and new contributors [LWN.net]

Debian's election season: old firmware and new contributors

Posted Oct 29, 2008 17:23 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Debian's election season: old firmware and new contributors by joey
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Binary blobs appear to violate the DFSG, but they don't violate the GPL (assuming that the binary blob code itself does not contain GPL code), because they are completely separate programs that run on completely separate processors, and fall under the GPL's "mere aggregation" exception.