From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261184AbUGEVmW (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:42:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261375AbUGEVmW (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:42:22 -0400 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:65470 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261184AbUGEVmV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:42:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:44:36 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Mark Adler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] gcc 3.5 fixes Message-Id: <20040705144436.62544a3d.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <9FC7DA98-CEA3-11D8-B083-000A95820F30@alumni.caltech.edu> References: <2e9is-5YT-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <2e9iu-5YT-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <2ecq2-80i-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <7ab39013.0407042237.40ea9035@posting.google.com> <20040705064010.C9BFB5F7AA@attila.bofh.it> <9FC7DA98-CEA3-11D8-B083-000A95820F30@alumni.caltech.edu> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see why you'd want the copyright notice in the executable: * It's probably the source text that you're intending to copyright, not the binary executable bits. * If you look, I believe you will find that there are almost no other copyright strings in the vmlinux executable. * By what right can I copy or distribute a kernel built with this string in it? The comments in zlib.h let us use the source, but I don't see any authorization to use the resulting executable bits on which this static copyright string seems to assert copyright. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373