From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
debian-devel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:02:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40697DF6.1010109@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040330113915.GB3084@openzaurus.ucw.cz>
Hi Pavel.
>>But the firmware didn't appear out of thin air - someone wrote it
>>somehow. If that's using a hex editor or inside the C code doesn't
>>matter, but most likely they used some other language like either
>>C or assembly (no, not all firmware is written using assembly), and
>>there are cases where some are in fact written using a hex editor but
>>I can't remember any that has been for the last 30 or so years but
>>I'm sure there has been cases where there hasn't been a working
>>assembler.
>
>
> If my code contains picture of human, do I have to provide his DNA, too?
No, that's where we come into the whole issue of IP.
If I have a picture of you then you can always LICENSE your IP to me,
but I don't think you NEED to license it to me :)
Unless you consider your IP to be in the public domain.
// Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-30 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1B6Izr-0002Ai-00@r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de>
[not found] ` <20040325082949.GA3376@gondor.apana.org.au>
2004-03-25 22:08 ` Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL? Adrian Bunk
2004-03-25 22:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-25 22:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-03-25 22:53 ` Bug#239952: " Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-25 22:53 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 0:33 ` John Hasler
2004-03-26 0:17 ` David Woodhouse
2004-03-26 1:30 ` John Hasler
2004-03-26 8:50 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 9:43 ` Bug#239952: " Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-03-26 9:43 ` Dumitru Ciobarcianu
2004-03-26 10:14 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 0:33 ` Bug#239952: " Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-26 0:33 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-26 1:07 ` GOTO Masanori
2004-03-26 1:39 ` John Hasler
2004-03-26 2:06 ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26 2:06 ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26 2:59 ` Chris Cheney
2004-03-26 3:23 ` John Hasler
2004-03-26 8:53 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 9:12 ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 13:59 ` John Hasler
2004-03-27 9:19 ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 0:41 ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26 11:20 ` Giuliano Pochini
2004-03-26 11:55 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-25 22:54 ` Chris Cheney
2004-03-26 0:41 ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26 0:41 ` David Schwartz
2004-03-26 9:09 ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 9:09 ` John Bradford
2004-03-26 13:16 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 13:16 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:19 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 14:29 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:29 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:38 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 14:55 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 14:55 ` Eduard Bloch
2004-03-26 15:03 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-26 15:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-26 15:22 ` Guy
2004-03-26 15:22 ` Guy
2004-03-26 15:53 ` Gabor Gombas
2004-03-26 21:57 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-03-30 11:39 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-30 14:02 ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2004-03-30 18:11 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2004-04-02 20:53 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-26 15:04 Matt Reuther
2004-03-26 15:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-03-26 22:10 ` David Schwartz
[not found] <8RnZwD.A.91B.qHYaAB@murphy>
2004-03-30 14:57 ` Humberto Massa
2004-03-30 16:51 ` Henning Makholm
2004-03-30 16:51 ` Henning Makholm
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