From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932504AbVJTRiy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:38:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932505AbVJTRiy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:38:54 -0400 Received: from free.mekensleep.com ([81.57.75.249]:38785 "EHLO allin.dachary.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932504AbVJTRiy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:38:54 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17239.47055.862579.653443@allin.dachary.org> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:29:19 +0200 From: Loic Dachary To: Pierre Michon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, legal@lists.gpl-violations.org Subject: Re: freebox possible GPL violation In-Reply-To: Pierre Michon's message of 19 October 2005 19:58:22 +0200 References: <20051005084738.GA29944@linux.ensimag.fr> <17232.52887.293668.390641@allin.dachary.org> <908666c60510191058h6e87b9c5y@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Reply-To: loic@gnu.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pierre Michon writes: > PS : Does we need the binary image in order to ask for the source code ? > In this case, with Embedded devices that hide the firmware it will be > very difficult to make GPL apply... It is not mandatory, it's just easier in this specific case. If we knew for sure what the firmware contains, the box would be enough. But if someone is able to figure out exactly what the firmware contains she/he will also be able to extract a tarball in which case the box itself becomes useless to ask for the corresponding sources ;-) Cheers, -- Loic Dachary, 12 bd Magenta, 75010 Paris. Tel: 33 8 71 18 43 38 http://www.fsffrance.org/ http://www.dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt