Am 2008-10-28 12:41:31, schrieb Ben Finney:
> "Jeff Carr" <basilarchia@gmail.com> writes:
> > Usually it's whatever the chip manufacturer provides.
;-)
> That doesn't seem to address my question. Here, ???the copyright
> holders??? means the copyright holders in the work under question; i.e.
> the work whose freedom is being discussed: the bundle of bits that get
> redistributed with the driver for loading onto the hardware.
>
> Whoever the copyright holder of that work is (I read your remark above
> to mean that the hardware manufacturer is that copyright holder),
> there must be a ???preferred form of the work for making modifications
> to it???. What form is that? *Someone* must have it, in order to make
> modifications that become new releases of the work to run on the same
> hardware.
I use a 8000 US$ software under Windows XP to build highly optimized
(very small) firmware and there is nothing like a C source code.
The project IS a binary blob which then can directly uploaded into the
device.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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