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Re: [gNewSense-users] firmware in cx88-blackbird.c
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Karl Goetz |
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Re: [gNewSense-users] firmware in cx88-blackbird.c |
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Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:53:46 +0930 |
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 09:58 +0200, Carsten Agger wrote:
> Karl Goetz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
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> If this is the preferred form of modification, then it *must* be argued that
> it is free; if there´s no hidden source code, then the hex data *is* the
> source code in and of itself, and then the software is free if the file is
> under a free license.
This is probably true - i tend to think of 'prefered form of
modification' (workding ok?) as something understandable
<trim>
> That would be nice, but this is more a question about coding practises: Yes,
> writing code so that it´s clear and easy to read, and keeping it well
> documented, is a good coding practise which I myself strive to follow. It
> does not, however, have anything to do with the question of whether the code
> is free/non-free.
>
> Otherwise, I know of a great number of Perl scripts which would also have to
> be marked as non-free because they contain so convoluted one-liners and
> regular expressions that they can probably only ever be understood by the
> author.
>
*grin*
point well made.
> What matters is ultimately not whether data is hexadecimal or not, but whether
>
> a) you´re free to use, modify, share and improve it and
> b) it "hides" some source code which was used to generate it
>
> if ( a and not b) -> the software is free, and this would be true even if it
> was all hexadecimal.
>
Your right of course, thanks for clarifying it.
kk
> br
> Carsten
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