Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:36:16 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: libata update posted |
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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
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