From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751177AbWH1QZx (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:25:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751149AbWH1QZx (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:25:53 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:9665 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751177AbWH1QZv (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:25:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:25:39 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Auke Kok , jakub@redhat.com, davem@redhat.com Cc: kernel list , Andrew Morton , john.ronciak@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com Subject: Re: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one, too Message-ID: <20060828162539.GC30105@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060827082534.GA2397@elf.ucw.cz> <44F30B25.2030906@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44F30B25.2030906@intel.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 @@ > >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? > > I'll ask around here and see if this doesn't make people cringe. Meanwhile > Pavel should examine sound/oss/COPYING and arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB too :) Hehe, okay, going after them. sparc64 lib: this is actually LGPL, but I'm not sure what it applies to. If specific files are under LGPL, I guess they should say that in headers... Plus, not *all* files seems like LGPLed to me: atomic32.c: * Based on asm-parisc/atomic.h Copyright (C) 2000 Philipp Rumpf ...I do not think atomic.h from parisc was LGPL. Dave? oss/COPYING... I guess we can just remove that one. I do not think we have maintainer for OSS. Should I submit deleting patch for Andrew, or Andrew, can you just rm sound/oss/COPYING? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html