Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer

[Felipe Contreras]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:15 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> 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. ÂThe 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_?

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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