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Re: Kernel Firmware issue: are GPLed sourceless firmwares legal to distribute ?



On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> So what? Distributing GPL works *with* sources is also not clear of
> legal liability.

Those liabilities occur in either case, so they're not particularly
interesting to discuss. Doing something that is against the letter and
spirit of a software license is just not a position that we should put
ourselves in.


Don Armstrong

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Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of
entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public
attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle
had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had
manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence
Point.
 -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228

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