[PATCH] fdisk.c: major whitespace/style cleanup

Bernd Petrovitsch bernd at firmix.at
Sun Feb 26 20:58:39 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:42 -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 9:10 am, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
[...]
> And if I publish an ARM binary of a standard package I don't have to configure 
> the relevant cross-compiler toolchain for you upon request.

Of course not.
But - technically speaking and IMHO - such a toolchain must exist in a
way that I can get it to work without having to reverse-engineer an
undocumented programming language and write a compiler before.

> (I remember reading something about this in the GPL3 draft, but I don't 
> remember GPL2 mentioning this at all.  It's been a while though...)

I didn't read GPLv3 up to now and it is not that explicit in GPLv2 but
somewhat indirectly implied IIRC.

[...]
> > ACK. But it makes sense to store that document (or source code) in a
> > file format which is actually known by text editors/word processors
> > enough to be actually of use (even if e.g. unnecessary formatting is
> > partly lost).
> 
> "Better" and "makes more sense" are not the same as "enforcibly required to 
> comply with the terms of the GPL".

Yes, the former is law people wording, the latter is my tech person
wording (trying to) the get the point to the readers of my mail.

	Bernd
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