Re: Aunt Tillie builds a kernel (was Re: ISA hardware discovery -- the elegant solution)

Eric S. Raymond
2002-01-14T22:57:54Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Where did your assumption that Melvin has the canned config files to
> > do that still available come from? More fundamentally: which should
> > he *have* to have those configs available?
>
> Because the GPL says he's entitled to them ?

You miss my point. Sure he's entitled to them. But why should he
*have to have them*? They're extra state which, in the presence
of a proper autoconfigurator, he doesn't need.
--
Eric S. Raymond

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