On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:22:06 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: > Francesco Poli wrote: > > IMHO the best solution would be to contact the firmware copyright > > holder and persuade her to rilicense it under a GPL-compatible > > license (so that every doubt would go away immediately). > > This would not solve the problem, unless they also released the source > of the firmware. Without that source, the firmware would either be > non-distributable (if under a license like the GPL that requires > source) or non-free (if the license does not require source).
Of course, releasing the source is an essential step of making something
free.
When I wrote "to r[e]license it under a GPL-compatible license" (and put
a typo in it... :p ) I meant implicitly that source code should be
provided also...
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