(Urgent) Consideration for an Embedded Linux device manufacturer

[Benjamin Henrion]

On 10/31/07, Puneet Goel <g.puneet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> Need you suggestion for a device manufacturer trying to include embedded
> linux in it's device.
> If i create an embedded Linux distribution (firmware) with most of the
> GPL'ed/LGPL'ed components and a single proprietary binary of mine. Do i need
> to release the source of whole distro including that of my proprietary
> binary ? Before making comments please consider that my binary is an
> independent executable.

No, you don't need to release source code of your proprietary binary.
Only the source code of the GPL/LGPL software you redistribute should
be available.

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Benjamin Henrion <bhenrion at ffii.org>
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