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yes and yes.

in terms of being hunted down by powerful rich assholes with money and
lawyers, we're obviously at the mercy of our lack of relevance. that's
the only thing that protects us. and perhaps common decency (i can
never be sure about it but i can hope).

it doesn't matter whether it seems like a modification to YOU.
somebody with enough money can make any court believe that looking
wrongly at the binary is already a violation of somebody's unalienable
human right or similar bullshit.

On 3/8/21, kemal <kemali13@protonmail.com> wrote:
>> the reason i'd want it all built in is bec. then you can netboot over
>> wifi without needing an installation.
>
> Do you mean into to the kernel? Well, that can be a good reason.
>
> Also just realised, is merging the fw in to the kernel is legal?
> License gives you permission to **just** redistribute and use,
> I don't know if building it into the kernel can be count as
> "modification".
>