From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing GPL headers
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:06:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B87E383.4020804@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002261154001.29558@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2010-02-26 11:42, Thomas Woerner wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> lots of files in the iptables tree are missing the GPL header but contain
>> copyright messages.
>
> I don't speak authoritatively, but the Linux kernel also has some files
> - usually those dating back to the initial years of Linux - that have no
> GPL header either, and everybody seems to be fine with that. See
> kernel/exit.c.
Yeah, the COPYING file states GPL-2, that applies to all files which
don't carry a seperate copyright statement.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 10:42 Missing GPL headers Thomas Woerner
2010-02-26 10:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-26 15:06 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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