[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >To the user, this doesn't appear as two separate works. He/she/it will So what? This still does not make them derived.
>see one program with pre-loaded data. If you are using already >existing, copyrighted data (the firmware), this means you are building >your work on top of the data. This is a derived work, I'd say (this WTF? This is so broad that could be applied to *anything*. The important point is /how/ you are using that data. >I think it is misleading if you think about the firmware as a program, >which indeed doesn't communicate with the flasher. As far as I >understand, the firmware that is being flashed doesn't run during >operation of the flasher. I.e. it is being treated as data. And this >data isn't treated "at arm's length", it is permanently incorporated >into the executable. But it's still data. The GPL is about code, not data. >So I'd say you should either build the flasher in a more general, >"arm's length" way (one flasher executable, potentially different data >files). Or you should consider using the LGPL. It doesn't fit exactly, >but it should come closer to what you want. Or a GPL + exception, but I still do not believe that one is needed. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
