On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:07:11PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > They say they can't reliably find all the binary-only firmware. > > Nobody's perfect. > > Why not? We found all of them and made sure they have proper licenses > on them. > > The job you did is easier, because you only need to check the license > of the binary. We need to determine whether the binary data is a > program that was compiled from other source code.
How so? It is only ROM code and therefore part of the hardware according to you. And I am sure you are aware of this but firmware is code compiled from source. Just making sure I answer the second part of your sentence.
