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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: Missing GPL headers
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:06:43 +0100
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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.