On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:49, Tom Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm not sure that it really has come up before. I would wholeheartedly > agree with you that firmware hex code is not "the preferred form of the > work for making modifications to it", but I'm also not sure whether the > copyright holder (the licensor) or the licensee is the one who > determines what is preferred. > > To put it bluntly, you might have to sue them to get the raw firmware > source. A lot of firmware I dealt with back in the day ONLY had hex code as the source. I doubt that is the case these days but it was how the guys liked to twiddle the bits as raw as they could. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
