Re: compatibility problems
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 08:12:57AM +0900, David wrote:
>
> >They're distributing to you the software in binary form in the media of the
> >modem's memory. Whether or not they modified the GPL code (i.e. to
> >handle their own hardware) we don't know.
>
> There would /have/ to be some modification, surely?
No. Otherwise, since "the Debian Way" is to use pre-compiled packages
rather than to compile packages, there would be no reason (other than a
small minorities desire) for Debian to offer deb-src for every deb that
they don't modify from the origional.
Read the GPL. Term 3.
Doug.
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