Re: Proposal: The DFSG do not require source code for data, including firmware
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:13:32AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:07:55PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > Speaking as someone with experience of the software rather than hardware
> > side of this I'd call FPGA images hardware. From the point of view of
> > working with it it looks very much like hardware. That's just my
> > opinion, though.
>
> Well, but it is stuff with sources. You could argue that actual hardware also
> has sources (the design document, schematics and routing files) though.
That's true, but software also has design documentation and we don't
require that to be distributed to meet the DFSG.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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