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Re: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?



On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:57:33 +0300, Markus Laire <malaire@gmail.com> said: 

> Hopefully (but I doubt this) someone in Debian will get sued for
> this violation in Etch, to stop such a behaviour in the future.

        Nice. But the only one who can sue is the person whose
 copytright we are violating -- namely, the person who provided the
 firmware in the first place.  I'll leave it up to you to determine
 the likelihood of that.

        manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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