Re:Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021
by hakfoo on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:09AM
(#26720501)
I could see it for things like electronics projects where the firmware gets modified as a form of configuration.
You might want to give out or sell customized devices, adapted to the specific user or deployment. The end user typically only wants the binary, so distributing the source is at best a good-faith-waste-of-time and at worst an opportunity to cause support problems.
The example I'm thinking of is keyboards running QMK firmware-- it's literally customized by editing a bunch of C and recompiling.
Re:Apple Donated $100-$249 to FreeBSD in 2021
by mhh__ on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:37PM
(#26727324)
If you do this for your own personal consumption you aren't violating the GPL, and if you do this for other people all you have to do is give out the source code when asked.
You might want to give out or sell customized devices, adapted to the specific user or deployment. The end user typically only wants the binary, so distributing the source is at best a good-faith-waste-of-time and at worst an opportunity to cause support problems.
The example I'm thinking of is keyboards running QMK firmware-- it's literally customized by editing a bunch of C and recompiling.