From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: libata update posted
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:36:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F64DF50.3000307@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030914230922.B11134@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-14 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 3:23 libata update posted Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 20:56 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-09-13 21:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 9:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 19:38 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 20:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 21:09 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 21:36 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-09-14 21:38 ` James Bottomley
2003-09-14 22:18 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-16 19:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-13 21:13 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-09-13 21:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 22:27 ` Hugo Mills
2003-09-14 22:31 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-05 23:15 Jeff Garzik
2003-10-05 23:41 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-08-13 3:40 Jeff Garzik
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