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SubjectRe: Device Tree Blob (DTB) licence
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:16 AM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote:
>> If the DTS license would be a problem, it would be worse w/ ACPI
>> and any proprietary firmware/BIOSes.
>
> not true, with a proprietary bios it's a clear "pay this much money and
> don't worry about it" while with GPL there's a nagging fear that someone you
> never heard of may sue you a decade from now claiming you need to give them
> the source to your OS.

That can also happen with the proprietary BIOS. You don't know what's really
inside.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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