From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>,
adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:44:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010525144446.A15304@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010524230321.B23155@vitelus.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105250229220.24864-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105250229220.24864-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from Alexander Viro on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:34:05AM -0400
Hi!
> > explicit about defining source code:
> > The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
> > making modifications to it.
>
> Erm... May I point you to the sysdep/libm-ieee754/e_j0.c? There's a bunch
> of constants of unknown origin. If you want to modify the implementation
> you most certainly want more than numeric values.
>
> Same goes for any tables that contain anything besides well-known constants.
Imagine the hell opening when you generate table of random numbers
with hardware generator :-). How do you write source of hardware
random generator?
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
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[not found] <200105250559.f4P5x80365151@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
2001-05-25 6:03 ` Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:34 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 6:42 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:58 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 7:02 ` Andreas Jaeger
2001-05-25 7:05 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 10:56 ` Erik Mouw
2001-05-25 11:56 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-25 12:44 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-05-29 1:38 Adam J. Richter
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2001-05-26 11:09 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 3:10 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 11:00 ` James Sutherland
2001-05-29 0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-29 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-29 0:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-05-26 2:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-26 2:38 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-26 4:52 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2001-05-25 17:02 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 17:23 ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2001-05-25 18:30 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-25 22:30 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-26 1:43 ` Larry McVoy
2001-05-25 19:14 ` Doug Ledford
2001-05-25 10:36 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 9:34 Adam J. Richter
2001-05-25 16:06 ` Doug Ledford
[not found] <mailman.990765360.7016.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2001-05-25 6:02 ` Pete Zaitcev
[not found] <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105242155540.4849-100000@beppo.feral.com>
2001-05-25 5:57 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 6:26 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-05-25 6:31 ` Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 4:34 Aaron Lehmann
2001-05-25 5:07 ` Greg KH
2001-05-25 10:00 ` John Cavan
2001-05-25 11:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 16:17 ` Alan Cox
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