Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:08:33 -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> said:
> OTOH, the source may require a non-free tool to render it into a
> binary firmware form. If you don't have that tool, and maybe even
> no hope of getting access to it, is it any longer evident that the
> source is more useful than the binary for derived works?
But if you, as a user, do have such tools, then having the
sources around is a freedom that could be important for you. So that
software, if it shipped with source, will give some additional
freedoms, perhaps to only a subset of our users. One should not that
the freedom granted to some users does not detract from the freedom
of other users.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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