Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Brian Thomas Sniffen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041014 16:35]: >> "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Why should this be worse than firmwares distributed on flash, which is not >> > even explicitly licensed at all? > >> Because I don't need a license to use the firmware on flash, and I >> never need to make a copy or distribute any copies other than those >> bought and paid for, and covered by first-sale -- the copyright owner >> already got his royalty when I bought the device. > > Do you really think that the freeness of a software (i.e. whether we can > include it in main) really depends on whether some non-free stuff is > placed on an eprom or a cdrom? I plainly disagree.
But you think that the freeness of some program depends on whether some stuff in a device is implemented with a microprocessor or an FPGA? That's no more consistent than my position -- I think rather less -- and impractical to boot. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
