From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:01:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:01:06 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:20146 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 20:01:00 -0400 Message-ID: <20010525144446.A15304@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 14:44:46 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Alexander Viro , Aaron Lehmann Cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h In-Reply-To: <20010524230321.B23155@vitelus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: ; from Alexander Viro on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:34:05AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > explicit about defining source code: > > The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for > > making modifications to it. > > Erm... May I point you to the sysdep/libm-ieee754/e_j0.c? There's a bunch > of constants of unknown origin. If you want to modify the implementation > you most certainly want more than numeric values. > > Same goes for any tables that contain anything besides well-known constants. Imagine the hell opening when you generate table of random numbers with hardware generator :-). How do you write source of hardware random generator? Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org