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rj@eli.elilabs.com said: > Why does an embedded system impose special considerations for > licensing? If you are concerned about distribution in binary only > form, this is allowed, provided that you give a reference to where the > source may be found. This is pushing the envelope, because the customer that buys a toaster with a ROM filled with GPLed software has no means to modify that ROM. There is in practice no "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" because the customer has not been given the means to load a modification, or even link it. Nor can he. Likely, special hardware is required, possibly not available to anyone other then the toaster maker. -- Steve Williams steve@icarus.com steve@picturel.com "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."