On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 02:16:42PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote:[...] I think there are other possible ones, but you dismissed them previously.Hard and possibly illegal.
If you mean reverse-engineering the devices, I think even the currently-proposed EU "enforcement directive" about this doesn't make it illegal. http://www.ffii.org.uk/ip_enforce/ipred.html
They would say : why should i care about freing the code, since i can upload those binary only drivers to non-free.org [...]
That seems little different to what they can say about debian.org today.
Point taken about developer motivations, but it's odd to ignore external non-free existing already, but ask the project to act based on what might happen to external non-free. Should we vote to keep "non-free" because of some concept like "keep your friends close and enemies closer"?
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