On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 20:45 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [snip] > > A did put a GPL notice on it. He can't change his mind later. > Then he should give us the source. [snip] > The fact remains that those firmware blob have no licence, and thus defacto > fall under the GPL. > > > Moreover, the firmare in not in binary form, but is part of a C source > > file. > > It is in binary form. Disguised binary form maybe but still binary form. [snip] > And where did those hexstrings come from ?
It seems to me, that to be consistent with the argument you seem to be presenting concerning binary data in GPLd code, that you also need to be demanding the "source" hardware design for binary register values. Why not consider the binary firmware in the same category as binary register programming information? You poke these magic bytes into these memory locations and it works. Where do you draw the lines between "write this byte to set the input gate here and the output gate to there" and "write this byte sequence to send the input byte through this loop, into this buffer, add it to the last byte entered, and output it over there"? -- Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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