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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 06:02:13PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> 1) Put it into a kernel module that is loaded/unloaded during device
> initialisation. Would this be possible (not from a technical point of
> view, but from a legal one: would the copyright infect the kernel? Would
> it be enough if the firmware itself lived in sys/contrib?)

You could always make a port of it -- that would allow you to not deal
with putting a binary file into CVS.