I don't think people understand what closed source actually is. Hint: the source is not published publicly on Git.
You're wrong, this is not free software. That's what the customers bought into, and that's what they should be receiving. Making semantic arguments is not appropriate here; "free" and "open" are not used literally in a software development context.
This only hurts the copy cats, the rest of us still have a hardware wallet with open-source software. And I'm also pretty sure it's not gonna stop the Chinese anyway...
You're advocating the "2 wrongs make a right" approach. And you're correct: this will not stop a successful copycat anyway. It
will stop me buying the "official" device.
1. Exactly. The software is open but not free for anyone to copy and use in their device for sale. I have no problems with that. They want to make money from their hard work.
2. 2 wrongs makes a right was not my point. My point was that the Chinese have no respect for copyright.
3. With all that said. If it turns out they did backdate the licensing, that is a pretty deceptive move on their part. Meaning that in all fairness they should use LGPL for the 1.3 firmware source.