From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755224AbYJ3Kzn (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:55:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754960AbYJ3Kz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:55:29 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate04.web.de ([217.72.192.242]:60825 "EHLO fmmailgate04.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754946AbYJ3Kz1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:55:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:54:57 +0100 Message-Id: <488434293@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: devzero@web.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: how much license information inside the kernel ? Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ X-Provags-Id: V01U2FsdGVkX19F9ARCLxO0DmDoWACWpTRQ9LdSwHgXe1V9dE15x88aEl6WX 8HEVnw5qMbNoSAQspimhXKdvldU/lntcpy4hlHs28w2id3SPa0= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 That`s more than 1% of the kernel source. What about the idea to shorten that licening information to a minimum , e.g. by shrinking that to a single, catchy line , linking to a special licensing file like COPYING or linking to the FSF website ? please no flames, i know this idea could be pure dynamite for some people - but i thought 3.5M is worth this mail. regards roland ps: i`m not sure if that has been discussed already, but i didn`t find that in the archive. please ignore, otherwise. ________________________________________________________________________ n 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114