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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Thomas Woerner <twoerner@redhat.com>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Missing GPL headers
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:06:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B87E383.4020804@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002261154001.29558@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2010-02-26 11:42, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> lots of files in the iptables tree are missing the GPL header but contain
>> copyright messages.
> 
> I don't speak authoritatively, but the Linux kernel also has some files 
> - usually those dating back to the initial years of Linux - that have no 
> GPL header either, and everybody seems to be fine with that. See 
> kernel/exit.c.

Yeah, the COPYING file states GPL-2, that applies to all files which
don't carry a seperate copyright statement.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26 10:42 Missing GPL headers Thomas Woerner
2010-02-26 10:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-26 15:06   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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