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Re: more evil firmwares found



On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 05:07:43PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
> 1. if there's a blob in a fw[] = { 0x0, ... }, in a GPL'd file, there is 
> nothing precluding debian from considering it the source code; for all 
> we know, it can be 4KB of register initial values for the hardware; it 
> can be and FPGA description, ie, a /hardware/, non-software description. 

Why do you think an FPGA configuration image should be exempt?
It is not the preferred form of modification by any means.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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