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Re:Reverse Engineering My Home Security System: Decompiling ... by juiyout on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:57AM (#15073640)
True. Though Honeywell can elect to mail you the source code printed on flash cards without any particular order.
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Re:Reverse Engineering My Home Security System: Decompiling ... by nitrogen on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:08PM (#15073756)
I don't remember what the GPL3 says, but the GPL2 (Linux is under GPL2) says something like "a medium customarily used for software interchange" must be provided.
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Re:Reverse Engineering My Home Security System: Decompiling ... by Simulacra on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:21PM (#15073903)
That seems a tad excessive. Does any company do this, outside of high security systems?
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Re:Reverse Engineering My Home Security System: Decompiling ... by subway on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @11:01AM (#15082003)
That has nothing to do with security, and everything to do with malicious compliance.
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