Dear Andrea, I've been thinking about this a little more and think there is a fundamental problem with the reasoning by denominating firmware as software and making an exception for it.
Making such an exception would not only violate the AGNULA trademark license, it would also open the door to all kinds of proprietary exceptions within Free Software projects for the future. As we all know, on the level we are talking about the distinction between software and hardware blurs -- and many people have made good points on how firmware can be considered data that is part of the hardware. Alessandro wrote a well-argued piece on the position of the FSFE about this issue, which should be taken as the fundament for the statement, I think. Regards, Georg -- Georg C. F. Greve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org) Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)
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