[Fedora-legal-list] Forced copyright assignment

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:49, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 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.





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