Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755696AbZCXXPa (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754238AbZCXXPN (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:13 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:46335 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754158AbZCXXPL (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:15:11 -0400 Message-ID: <49C96978.6050904@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:15:04 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Baybal Ni CC: Ken Moffat , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer References: <20090321111520.5fb73195@infradead.org> <49C5BBE8.6010906@zytor.com> <20090322233502.GC1114@deepthought> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1533 Lines: 35 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.) -hpa (I am not a lawyer. My understanding is that in the United States, none of this really applies because bitmap fonts are not copyrightable. However, my understanding is that this is not true in some other jurisdictions, so we can't just go ahead and ignore the license.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/