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From: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	john.ronciak@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Subject: Re: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one, too
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:26:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F30B25.2030906@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060827082534.GA2397@elf.ucw.cz>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Okay, so modifications are not major: different address of free
> software foundation, completely different formatting, some characters
> added, and some characters removed. It no longer contains Linus'
> clarifications.
> 
> --- LICENSE     2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200
> +++ ../../../COPYING    2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1,128 +1,141 @@

[snip]

> 
> Now... I believe nothing evil is going on, but having two slightly
> different copies of GPL in one source seems wrong, can we get rid of
> e1000 one?

I'll ask around here and see if this doesn't make people cringe. Meanwhile 
Pavel should examine sound/oss/COPYING and arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB too :)

Cheers,

Auke

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-28 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-27  8:25 e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one, too Pavel Machek
2006-08-28 15:26 ` Auke Kok [this message]
2006-08-28 16:25   ` Pavel Machek
2006-08-28 21:33     ` Auke Kok

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