From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: libata update posted Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:36:16 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F64DF50.3000307@pobox.com> References: <3F628DC7.3040308@pobox.com> <20030913205652.GA3478@werewolf.able.es> <20030913212849.GB21426@gtf.org> <20030914111225.A3371@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <3F64A4BD.6030906@pobox.com> <20030914213821.A11134@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <3F64CB08.9010506@pobox.com> <20030914230922.B11134@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:21633 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261617AbTINVga (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:36:30 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030914230922.B11134@pclin040.win.tue.nl> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andries Brouwer Cc: "J.A. Magallon" , SCSI Mailing List , LKML Andries Brouwer wrote: > I am a mathematician, and some of my generated files take weeks > of computation. Maybe once they are available one no longer > wants to regard them as generated files. Something similar holds > for files generated by software that is not widely available. > Maybe the software is commercial. Maybe it only runs on a > different architecture. Or maybe it was a specially patched version. > In the case of defkeymap.c (where nothing has changed for > over five years), when a key type is added, it is generated > by a private version that is not widely available. > For Linus or whoever makes distributions, who does not possess > the software required to generate defkeymap.c, it is just a > source file.) Well, if an auto-generated file in the kernel is not generated by a program that is itself open source, that's IMO a problem. GPL's "preferred form" and all. Jeff