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Re: generated source files, GPL and DFSG



Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> 
> Could you back up a bit, first, and explain to me why that is not the
> preferred form for modification?  It certainly looks like it to me.

The preferred form for modification has all of the hex constants
replaced with preprocessor defines that give you useful register names.
It's fairly easy to show that this is the case - the code is plainly
derived from NVidia's earlier (Xfree 3.3 era) driver and their open
source SDK, which did have useful symbolic constant names.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.debian.legal@srcf.ucam.org



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