Am 18.10.2016 um 16:52 schrieb Jani Nikula <jani.nik...@linux.intel.com>:
>> *Only* adding the PNG would be awful, I'd have to keep track of the >> corresponding source elsewhere, and perhaps couldn't even GPL it >> because then I couldn't distribute the PNG without corresponding >> source... >> >> Adding the source text would really be the only practical choice, but >> doing so makes it easy to mismatch things, and also very easy to use >> proprietary services for it that may go away at any time, etc. > > Agreed. And there are other problems with attaching binaries (although > I'd say we should fix them too) [1]. > > [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/02a78907-933d-3f61-572e-28154b16b...@redhat.com Hmm, I was not briefed that binaries are problematic. I have seen GIFs e.g. [2] and PDFs with a long history (when I worked with the media documentation), so I thought binaries are OK. Can you give me some more hints to understand in what ways they are problematic? / sorry if my question seems dump / [2] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/fieldseq_tb.gif?h=v3.0 -- Markus ---- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
