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| Posted by Ben Hermans/Hyperion on 29-Sep-2002 08:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 41 (Kronos):
>>Others need to buy in their Bios.
>THAT was the point I was refering to, other bought their BIOS and adapted it,
>and I don't see why this should be a plus for since you also used someone elses
>work to base you one on.
I raised this issue to counter the nonsense spread by some that a bunch of "game porters" would never be able to deal with low-level coding.
Having successfully adapted and improved the PPCBoot firmware for the A1, this becomes a rather silly "argument".
>And yes I do think that you have a (slight ?) preference for the A1 since you
>wrote the BIOS, and got paid for this by the producer (maybe even per copy).
This claim is baseless. Moreover the compensation we get from MAI is a "lump sum" fee, not a per unit royalty.
That's not the way contract-work is carried out.
About the GPL:
>The main point of the GPL is that every user can use and modify the SW, which is
>impossible if the GPL-part is linked (not in the meaning lm/slink or so) to a >part he can't recreate. If both the GPL-part and the Hyperion-part are in one >flash, which can only be flashed as a whole, than this point is voided.
Your interpretation and wish-list with respect of the GPL is rather irrelevant in the light of the clear wording of the GPL license.
Any user can still use and modify PPCBoot.
If he does so, he will loose the ability to run non-GPL'ed proprietary software (ie OS 4) but will still be able to run GPL'ed software (ie Linux).
Our primary responsibility is towards the end-users who will thus be shielded against malicious code being incorporated into the flashrom.
Any user who wants to flash the rom with unofficial code will do so at the expense of loosing the ability to run AmigaOS (until it reflashes with an official firmware). |
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