On 2004-03-08 14:24:13 +0000 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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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