Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753016AbZC3Hvc (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:51:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751504AbZC3HvW (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:51:22 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.170]:41575 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751425AbZC3HvW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:51:22 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PeAiOuswKJ4KqNhqnPKCbZj+t5/mWOPpqyIDcbxvpQtoXxOykvjMplbCFhmUBrOY6N kzEmFWy96otkTH5w/11LZtsFIaTtCwT1zzMTZrBe1SAnDG4gK1QeGc1Zv0OMLrdulZv8 uC+S/GLauSq/30ObWIkmknNoq5dJf6TM3RyCU= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:51:05 +1000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: My new fancy font for framebuffer From: Baybal Ni To: 7eggert@gmx.de Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Felipe Contreras , Ken Moffat , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1012 Lines: 28 On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:55, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote: > 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 ΒΆΒΆ > > Ok, I leave it to linux kernel gurus. One more cool thing that sunk under copyright FUD. -- 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/