From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: devzero@web.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how much license information inside the kernel ?
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:24:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030142420.GA7157@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488434293@web.de>
On Thu, 30 October 2008 11:54:57 +0100, devzero@web.de wrote:
>
> i found that there is a LOT of repeating licensing information in the kernel.
>
> for me,
>
> find ./linux-2.6.27 -type f -exec cat {} \; |egrep "free software|GNU General Public License|Free Software Foundation|version 2 of the License|distributed in the hope|WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY|FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR"
>
> gives a file sized ~3.5M
>
> That`s more than 1% of the kernel source.
Scary, isn't it?
One of the problems is that corporate lawyers require the full GPL
preample in any source file. As a result, a lot of developers inside
companies cannot publish code without it. Whether that makes any sense
is anyone's guess. But it doesn't cause much harm either, so better
leave the bloat where it is.
Jörn
--
Time? What's that? Time is only worth what you do with it.
-- Theo de Raadt
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2008-10-30 10:54 how much license information inside the kernel ? devzero
2008-10-30 14:24 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-10-30 18:47 ` Chris Snook
2008-11-02 16:39 ` Pavel Machek
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2008-10-30 16:12 devzero
2008-10-30 19:02 devzero
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2008-11-03 21:37 ` Bodo Eggert
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