Alexandre Oliva wrote:
Nor do you have any standing to impose restrictions relating to other works via copyright.True, but this is a distraction. Nobody's restricting other works. The issue the debate was turned into is whether the GPLed work can be distributed in this way. The more people insist 'taking it out will break', the weaker the 'mere aggregation' defense becomes.
The way they are aggregated is the distraction since the unrelated nature of the components would be more obvious if there was a file-level split between firmware payload and deployment code. But whether they are temporarily aggregated into the same file or not doesn't change their underlying status as different things.
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