Re: how much license information inside the kernel ?

Bodo Eggert
2008-11-03T21:37:24Z

Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Thu 2008-10-30 11:54:57, 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
>
> Now gzip it :-).

Now multiply it by the number of users.