Re: Fedora Freedom and linux-libre

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Once upon a time, jeff <moe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> The firmware hasn't always been known to be non-GPL. It was distributed for 
> years under the GPL, so it *is* GPL, but they are violating the GPL by not 
> shipping the source code.

They distributed a string of hex digits in a source file that said it
was GPL.  Where does it say they have to give you anything else?

If I "dd if=/dev/random bs=16 count=1 | md5sum" and include the output
in a GPL source file, you don't get to demand my entropy pool.
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Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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