Re: [PATCH 1/3] boot with Gujin: add script/{gzcopy.c,gzparam.c} togenerate linux.kgz file format

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 19:02:10 EST


Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So this patch create a file script/gzcopy.c and Makefile rules to produce
> script/gzcopy which can be use to view, change (set/append/prepend) comment
> to GZIP files. Type "./script/gzcopy --help" for a list of switches.
> This first file (and only this one) is released under a BSD license to
> enable anybody else to add it in a "GZIP distribution" if needed,
> it follow special rules for indentation and a special way to define
> strings so that localisation should be simpler.
>
> This patch also contains the simple script/gzparam.c file and its
> Makefile rules - that is a simple standalone program to display a text
> line on stdout containing the base pattern to generate the GZIP comment
> itself for this configured kernel.

Those sound like things which should be distributed in the gzip package,
not in the kernel source tree?
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