From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264456AbTLGRQe (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:16:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264457AbTLGRQe (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:16:34 -0500 Received: from smtp12.eresmas.com ([62.81.235.112]:20187 "EHLO smtp12.eresmas.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264456AbTLGRQd (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:16:33 -0500 Message-ID: <3FD3603A.6020907@wanadoo.es> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:15:38 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: gl, es, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Bradford wrote: > "This file is not a complete program and may only be used when the > entire operating system is licensed under the GPL". to be more exact, it would have to say: This file is not a complete program and may only be used when the entire *derived work* is licensed under the GPL *version XX* Or if you want be pedantic: ---cut--- NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated. --end--- where '_this_' is linux/COPYING BTW, there is in Kernel Janitor TODO list [1] an item to place a GPL head on all source files. Maybe, now that Torvalds is boring and waiting for akpm. He could do this job ;-) [1] http://alumno.inacap.cl/kj-wiki/bin/view/KJ/ToDo