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coderjames on Oct 24, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: FTDI driver kills fake FTDI FT232s

Wouldn't flashing your hardware with another vendor's firmware, thereby distributing said firmware, be copyright infringement?

wtallis on Oct 24, 2014 [–]

Only the distribution, and even then only if the firmware is eligible for copyright protection. Purely functional configuration data like vendor and product IDs aren't copyrightable.

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