From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
cramerj@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com,
jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one, too
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:25:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060827082534.GA2397@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
Hi!
Okay, so modifications are not major: different address of free
software foundation, completely different formatting, some characters
added, and some characters removed. It no longer contains Linus'
clarifications.
--- LICENSE 2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200
+++ ../../../COPYING 2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,128 +1,141 @@
-"This software program is licensed subject to the GNU General Public License
-(GPL). Version 2, June 1991, available at
-<http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>"
+ NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
+ services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
+ of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
+ Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
+ Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
+ kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.
+
+ Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
+ is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
+ v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
-GNU General Public License
+ Linus Torvalds
+----------------------------------------
+
+ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
-
-Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license
-document, but changing it is not allowed.
+ 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
+ Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
+ of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
Missing line in Intel's version:
-The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification
-follow.
+ The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
+modification follow.
+ GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
For some reason Intel's version likes stars:
- * a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source
- code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
- above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
+ a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
+ source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
+ 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
...and hates ^Ls and <,>s.
Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
-'Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
+ `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.
-signature of Ty Coon, 1 April 1989
+ <signature of Ty Coon>, 1 April 1989
Ty Coon, President of Vice
Now... I believe nothing evil is going on, but having two slightly
different copies of GPL in one source seems wrong, can we get rid of
e1000 one?
Pavel
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next reply other threads:[~2006-08-27 8:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-27 8:25 Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-08-28 15:26 ` Auke Kok
2006-08-28 16:25 ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-28 21:33 ` Auke Kok
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