Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:39:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:15 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > Baybal Ni wrote: >> >> So, why not just to squeeze the whole kbd into the kernel? =D, or you >> want the way how to inject bdf blob compiletime? These way it would >> violate the GPL almost the same way as you have already said. >> > > No, it wouldn't. The fundamental requirement of the GPL is distribution of > the preferred editable format, which in this case is the BDF (and the > unicode files.) > >> Why you are so unhappy about GPL in GPL? I Think that it is perfectly >> ok as long as it goes along with 4 basics of GPL. And it does along >> with it. > > It has nothing to do with "4 basics", it has to do with the literal > specification in the license. ssencessence There is nothing wrong with > incorporating code from another GPL'd project (quite on the contrary, it's > encouraged), but it has to be in source code form -- a C file which contains > a processed binary is not source. > > Of course, you could contact the author and get a special exception, too (in > which case this should be declared in the file.)
I thought you had to distribute the source code only if you made modifications. What's the point of distributing it _again_?
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