Re: [Gnewsense-dev] [KFV] no reference for sv_addr.agh

[Sam Geeraerts]

crap0101 schreef:
> Hi, I need a piece of advice regarding a file i'm checking for KFV,
> this:
> http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Kernel/Ubuntu-hardy-linux-2-6-24-12-22--include--asm-cris--arch-v10--sv-addr-agh
> The file is too long, i cut some lines here
> http://gnewsense.pastebin.com/m3e6855a5 (there are other *7000* lines of
> defines)
>
> Is not the code itself that make me doubtful, infact this one is well
> documented ( see
> http://www.axis.com/products/dev_etrax_100lx/index.htm ), but i think
> about the head of the document: inside the first comment there's a
> reference regarding 2 files used to generate this one, but none of these
> is located in the kernel tree (the path is self-explanatory, anyway i
> grepped it).
> I think it was generated within the axis toolkit (download it requires
> registration, i don't... yet). 
>
> The matter is: how to modify it, if we haven't the files which had
> generated it (since is not recommended editing it directly) ? 
> Since this file are placed there without reference, have that 2 files
> above-mentioned would be nice.
>
> what do you think?
>
> i've opened a bug report: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00323

For GPL works, the source code is the preferred form of the work for 
making modifications to it. The comment says that the contents of the 
file is not the recommended form for modification. My interpretation is 
that "recommended" means "recommended by the makers of the generation 
tool and "preferred" means "preferred by the user/developer of the 
resulting software. Let's assume that means the same in this context. 
Then this file is not the source code. And with source file and 
generation tool missing, this looks like it's non-free.

Other opinions/interpretations welcome.