From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Baybal Ni <nikulinpi@gmail.com>,
Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:43:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C9700D.6000300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530903241639g71c1d519jf01740e10c9342d0@mail.gmail.com>
Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
> I thought you had to distribute the source code only if you made
> modifications. What's the point of distributing it _again_?
>
a) the license requires it.
b) the *reason* is that the *recipient* may want to modify it.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-24 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 16:45 My new fancy font for framebuffer Baybal Ni
2009-03-21 18:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22 4:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22 4:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22 9:22 ` Baybal Ni
2009-03-22 19:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22 23:35 ` Ken Moffat
2009-03-24 6:43 ` Baybal Ni
2009-03-24 23:15 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-24 23:39 ` Felipe Contreras
2009-03-24 23:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2009-03-26 13:55 ` Bodo Eggert
2009-03-30 7:51 ` Baybal Ni
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