Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:34:41 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: libata update posted |
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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 -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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