Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:19:49 GMT
From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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To: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>, 239952@bugs.debian.org,
       debian-devel@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
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Quote from John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>:
> 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.

But does 'preferred form' == 'the form it was written in' necessarily
apply for things like assembler?  My example about leaving a patch
space wasn't really serious, I was just using it to demonstrate that
point.

John.
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