Re: how much license information inside the kernel ?

Pavel Machek
2008-11-02T16:40:17Z

On Thu 2008-10-30 11:54:57, devzero@web.de wrote:
> hi,
>
> 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 :-).

Pavel
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