Re: libata update posted

Pavel Machek
2003-09-16T19:34:58Z

Hi!

> >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.

Actually, that's okay. Source code for proprietary compiler is *still*
prefered form for editing.
Pavel
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