On Jun 14, 2007, [email protected] wrote:
> If a company sells you hardware that includes a ROM that contains GPL'ed
> software, are they in violation of the GPL if they don't include a ROM burner
> in the hardware? Or are ROM burners like compilers, where you have to supply
> your own?
this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party
retains the ability to install modified object code on the User
Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM).
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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