From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264564AbTLHGlN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 01:41:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264567AbTLHGlN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 01:41:13 -0500 Received: from mail.willden.org ([63.226.98.113]:65154 "EHLO zedd.willden.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264564AbTLHGlL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Dec 2003 01:41:11 -0500 From: Shawn Willden To: "Jeremy Maitin-Shepard" , Subject: Re: Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 23:40:56 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.93 Cc: "David Schwartz" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200312072341.07645.shawn-lkml@willden.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 December 2003 08:51 pm, David Schwartz wrote: > It is definitely redundant. The idea is that if a portion of the > distribution ever winds up somewhere, the terms are still clear. The FSF recommends including a notice in every file, also. The text they suggest is: This file is part of Foobar. Foobar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Foobar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Foobar; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html For Linux the first paragraph would have to be modified to harmonized with Linus' choice of GPL version. Shawn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/1Bz7p1Ep1JptinARAiGVAJ9yQLLS5O03rvIVAl5AI36ykn19qACfR/YX z9L47JHDCRF5Xt5ovP+Pkr4= =LXA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----