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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:02:30 +0200
From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Binary-only firmware covered by the GPL?
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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
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