Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware

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Subject: Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:22:07 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20060822221804.GC28755@mauritius.dodds.net> (Steve Langasek's message of "Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:18:04 -0700")
References: <[🔎] 20060822221804.GC28755@mauritius.dodds.net>

I think it is ludicrous to pretend that firmware is not a program.

Suppose we had in our possession the source code and an assembler for
it.  Surely then it would be obviously a program.  

thomas

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