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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Cc: Baybal Ni <nikulinpi@gmail.com>,
	Ken Moffat <zarniwhoop@ntlworld.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:43:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C9700D.6000300@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530903241639g71c1d519jf01740e10c9342d0@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> I thought you had to distribute the source code only if you made
> modifications. What's the point of distributing it _again_?
> 

a) the license requires it.
b) the *reason* is that the *recipient* may want to modify it.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-21 16:45 My new fancy font for framebuffer Baybal Ni
2009-03-21 18:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-03-22  4:12   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22  4:17   ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22  9:22     ` Baybal Ni
2009-03-22 19:01       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-22 23:35       ` Ken Moffat
2009-03-24  6:43         ` Baybal Ni
2009-03-24 23:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-03-24 23:39             ` Felipe Contreras
2009-03-24 23:43               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2009-03-26 13:55                 ` Bodo Eggert
2009-03-30  7:51                   ` Baybal Ni

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