A "Large Hardware Vendor" Wants A EULA Displayed For Firmware Updates On Linux

[carewolf]

Not so, the entire concept of FOSS blurs this distinction, as the end user often times *is* the programmer. This is the case with many hobbyist communities, not just software.

So you agree, it is against the programmer. End-users as it is defined by EULAs are not affected in any way.

If your claim were true, there would be no such thing as a "GPL violation", yet we all know GPL violations are a real thing.

GPL violations are a subset of copyright violations. You are just copying code you have no permission to copy. And of course only applies to progammmers stealing GPL code without permission.

[_ONH_]

If your claim were true, there would be no such thing as a "GPL violation", yet we all know GPL violations are a real thing.

He is wrong, it grants the permision conditional.
It grants you the permission, while you grant the same permission to the user of your software.
The same kind of conditional you can finde in the hr statment, and is ignored by most people.