From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
To: jacob@chaos2.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregistertable
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:08:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B25BFEE.E9458B09@idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106111126070.14070-100000@inbetween.blorf.net>
Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
> ^^^^^^^^^
> Preferred by whom? The FSF? Richard Stallman? Hackers in general when
> they take a vote? Programmers in general? What if the market is full of
> VB programmers who prefer VB? What if none of them know assembly? They
> might all vote that assembly isn't a preferred form. If they aren't the
> ones who count, then who does? Maybe the authors count for more than
> other people? If so then it does seem they might like to write binaries
> because they're crazy and they think it's fun or something. I think that
> the intention of the GPL is clear here but the language is not...
The intention _is_ clear indeed. That ought to be all we need really.
If it comes to the worst and somneone in court claims that binary
is their preferred form for _modification_ - have them demonstrate their
way of working to prove it can be done. "Now write 'hello world'
in binary. Wow, you managed that! Now add a triple loop to it..."
This could be really interesting.
Somehow, I believe a driver written directly in binary (without even
assembly source) would be easy to reimplement from scratch in C.
Because it'd be so small.
Helge Hafting
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2001-06-05 16:59 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2001-06-06 22:07 ` La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2001-06-07 19:11 ` Matthias Urlichs
2001-06-11 18:26 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-06 " La Monte H.P. Yarroll
2001-06-13 16:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-06 22:15 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 " David S. Miller
2001-06-06 22:36 ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-06 22:42 ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-06 22:52 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-06 23:21 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-06-06 23:51 ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-07 0:51 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-07 5:37 ` George Bonser
2001-06-07 5:50 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-07 6:00 ` George Bonser
2001-06-07 15:18 ` watermodem
2001-06-07 15:51 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-09 22:09 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregistertable watermodem
2001-06-09 23:15 ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-10 2:59 ` Horst von Brand
2001-06-10 4:38 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-06-07 1:22 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table Ben Greear
2001-06-07 5:16 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-06-07 18:03 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister Alan Cox
2001-06-07 5:46 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table David S. Miller
2001-06-07 6:20 ` Richard Gooch
2001-06-07 6:47 ` Matt D. Robinson
2001-06-07 18:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-08 1:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-06 23:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-06 23:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-07 10:03 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-07 10:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-07 17:52 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-08 8:29 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-08 16:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-08 22:54 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-08 23:46 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-11 8:45 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-06-11 9:43 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-11 16:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-11 18:31 ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2001-06-11 18:48 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister Alan Cox
2001-06-11 20:34 ` Jacob Luna Lundberg
2001-06-12 7:08 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2001-06-07 10:05 ` [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table Russell King
2001-06-07 15:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-07 17:01 ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-07 11:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-07 11:25 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-07 0:14 ` Ben Greear
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