Re: How aggressively should non-distributability bugs be dealt with?

[Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net>]

Francesco Poli wrote:
> IMHO the best solution would be to contact the firmware copyright holder
> and persuade her to rilicense it under a GPL-compatible license (so that
> every doubt would go away immediately).

This would not solve the problem, unless they also released the source
of the firmware.  Without that source, the firmware would either be
non-distributable (if under a license like the GPL that requires source)
or non-free (if the license does not require source).

- Josh Triplett