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SubjectRe: libata update posted
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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