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Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations



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
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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