From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@attbi.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 22:11:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r7zg0zrg.fsf@jay.local.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKKELHIIAA.davids@webmaster.com> (David Schwartz's message of "Sun, 7 Dec 2003 18:32:54 -0800")
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
> It occurs to me that it might not be a bad idea to have a short blurb that
> could be included in individual files that clarifies that the file is part
> of a GPL'd distribution but that's clear that it doesn't impose any
> additional restrictions. Here's a stab at such a notice just off the top of
> my head:
[snip]
I don't understand the desire for a notice that is clearly redundant.
Due to the nature of the GPL (version 1 or 2), licensing an entire work
under it is exactly equivalent to licensing all of the component parts
individually under it.
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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-08 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-07 15:15 Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers John Bradford
2003-12-07 16:15 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2003-12-08 8:32 ` John Bradford
2003-12-08 0:29 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-08 1:00 ` Alex Belits
2003-12-08 2:32 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-08 3:11 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard [this message]
2003-12-08 3:51 ` David Schwartz
2003-12-08 6:40 ` Shawn Willden
2003-12-08 20:57 ` Matthias Andree
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2003-12-07 17:15 Xose Vazquez Perez
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