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From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
To: 239952@bugs.debian.org, 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: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 07:59:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brmjaevc.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403260912.i2Q9CdLU000531@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (John Bradford's message of "Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:12:39 GMT")

John Bradford writes:
> Then why didn't the original programmer leave a patch space to allow for
> such modifications?  Surely that could be considered part of the
> 'preferred form'.

It would be the 'preferred form' if and only if it's the form in which he
wrote it, patch space or no.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-26 13:53 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 [this message]
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
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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