From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751131AbWH1QGD (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:06:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751137AbWH1QGD (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:06:03 -0400 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:45181 "EHLO azsmga101-1.ch.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751131AbWH1QGB (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:06:01 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.08,176,1154934000"; d="scan'208"; a="108604959:sNHT12455481857" Message-ID: <44F30B25.2030906@intel.com> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:26:29 -0700 From: Auke Kok User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: kernel list , Andrew Morton , john.ronciak@intel.com, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com Subject: Re: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one, too References: <20060827082534.GA2397@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060827082534.GA2397@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Aug 2006 16:05:54.0443 (UTC) FILETIME=[D72DB5B0:01C6CABB] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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