Bug#494119: permission to copy, distribute, modify?!?
It says it's derived from AF05BDA.sys. Are you sure you, Debian or
anyone has permission to copy and distribute it? And to modify it?
That someone distributed it, perhaps even under the GPL, doesn't grant
you permission to redistribute it, if the person who did so wans't the
copyright holder.
That it's just a bunch of bits written to random registers doesn't
make it Free Software. In the absence of actual source code, and
information to enable someone to understand what's going on so as to
be able to adapt that piece of software so that it does what one
wants, freedom #1 is missing.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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