Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758339AbZCZNzw (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:55:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756209AbZCZNzn (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:55:43 -0400 Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]:53286 "EHLO mail-in-11.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755209AbZCZNzm (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:55:42 -0400 X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 mail-in-06.arcor-online.net AEBF739A775 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Felipe Contreras , Baybal Ni , Ken Moffat , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:55:30 +0100 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-Id: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 17 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Felipe Contreras wrote: >> >> I thought you had to distribute the source code only if you made >> modifications. What's the point of distributing it _again_? >> > > a) the license requires it. No, you just have to offer the source. OTOH, if the bdf2c-translator is reasonably small, put it into the utility directory, define a user-stuff-directory, and write a "make fonts" section which will insert $CONFIG_USER_STUFF/fonts/* into the kconfig menu. (Or pre-define $CONFIG_USER_STUFF to a fixed directory in the kernel tree.) just my ?? -- 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/