Jason Self wrote: > Interesting. Wikipedia says that the X11 license is free software and > if the blob truly is distributed under that license, then there > shouldn't be anything stopping someone from doing exactly as RMS > suggested (decompile the blob, assign meaningful function & variable > names, comments, etc.) Well, finding someone that actually wants to do > the work would be the hardest part. Perhaps offering a financial > bounty to the free software community?
I'm not sure what license those blobs under, there's no mention of license in the "firmware/radeon/" directory of Linux. However, it seems that proprietary code reaches free software trees easily these days. Look at this: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=a728f9f90911301058j180e66eaofc60d3166cef5b0%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=dri- devel The license of these firmwares contains "No reverse engineering, decompilation, or disassembly of this Software is permitted.". -- I'm an FSF member -- Help us support software freedom! <http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7253> _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
