On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:56:27AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lun 22/09/2003 à 09:46, Glenn Maynard a écrit : > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:47:26AM +0200, Thomas Hood wrote: > > > IBM distributes the Linux driver and the binaries in a tarball that > > > it says is licensed under the GPL. > > > http://oss.software.ibm.com/acpmodem/ > > > No source code is provided for the DSP binaries. (N.B., past > > > discussions of this issue have reached the conclusion that such > > > software can nevertheless be distributed in main.) > > If it's licensed under the GPL, and no source is provided, then it can > > not be distributed at all, not even in non-free, unless there never was > > source to begin with. (I assume this isn't the case, as you said "no > > source code is provided", not "no source code exists".) > If the binaries were entirely written using assembly code, the binary > here equates the source. assembly != machine language. If it's written in assembly, the source is still assembly, not a binary (despite assembly sometimes /appearing/ to be binary gibberish :). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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