From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@attbi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kendrick Hamilton <hamilton@sedsystems.ca>
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel and GPL section 2c
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:16:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031210001652.GC618@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ptezgnfv.fsf@jay.local.invalid>
Hi!
> > Hello all,
> > I noticed the discussion about linux kernel modules that happened last
> > week. I was wondering about something with regards to the linux kernel and
> > Section 2c of the GPL. Why doesn't the kernel on booting print something
> > about the kernel being free software licensed under the GPL, and shouldn't
> > it?
>
> Presumably, 1) the kernel as a whole is not a "modified" work, but
> rather at least parts of it are the original work, 2) it does not read
> commands interactively when run, 3) it does not normally print such
> announcements.
I see such announcements. I think we should just kill them all:
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Or perhaps we can replace 'POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX' with
'Distribute under GPLv2'?
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-10 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-08 18:14 Linux Kernel and GPL section 2c Kendrick Hamilton
2003-12-08 18:43 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2003-12-10 0:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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