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* Missing GPL headers
@ 2010-02-26 10:42 Thomas Woerner
  2010-02-26 10:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Woerner @ 2010-02-26 10:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Netfilter Development Mailinglist

Hello,

lots of files in the iptables tree are missing the GPL header but contain copyright messages.

Thanks,
Thomas

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* Re: Missing GPL headers
  2010-02-26 10:42 Missing GPL headers Thomas Woerner
@ 2010-02-26 10:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
  2010-02-26 15:06   ` Patrick McHardy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jan Engelhardt @ 2010-02-26 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thomas Woerner; +Cc: Netfilter Development Mailinglist

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.

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* Re: Missing GPL headers
  2010-02-26 10:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
@ 2010-02-26 15:06   ` Patrick McHardy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Patrick McHardy @ 2010-02-26 15:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jan Engelhardt; +Cc: Thomas Woerner, Netfilter Development Mailinglist

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.

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