gcc3 source code in xorg-server-1.6.1.901

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Tue Jun 9 01:39:07 PDT 2009


On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, olafBuddenhagen at gmx.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 08:20:46AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
>> One point to be made is that the source which was added to the tree
>> has additional restrictions which do not apply to other files.
>
> It is not really source code. It is a .c file, but a generated one. The
> real source is the .y.
>
> I don't know whether X.org has any policy about licensing of generated
> files in the tarballs...

I would suppose it should be treated in much the same way (for the same
reasons - restrictive licensing) as binary blobs (I forget the term) from 
vendors such as Nvidia.

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