On Wednesday 18 December 2002 21:06, Omer Zak wrote: the RMS visit is getting closer and closer. if you people are serious about creating a list of questions for a translated interview, please send them to me, and I'll add them to omer's and eli's.
tal. > Meanwhile I thought about questions to RMS. > > 1. What is RMS' exact position about software which is burned into ROM and > put into an instrument/device/appliance? Should the customer have > access to the source code and to a means for replacing the software? > > 2. What if the "ROM" mentioned in (1) is really a PROM or flash ROM, which > is modifiable in field? > > 3. Sometimes, in order to be able to finish modifying software for which > you have the source code, you need to be able to prove that your > modification has no unintended consequences. Therefore you need access > to a regression test suite. > In view of the above, should such a regression test suite be > considered as "source code" (meaning form in which is the easiest to > modify the software) as far as GPL is concerned? If not, why not? > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Ely Levy wrote: > > ok I have 2 to offer, > > [... snipped ...] > > --- Omer > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
