2005-11-21 18:07:07

by Bill Jordan

Subject: Proprietary Copyrights in the Kernel

I sent this out before, but it doesn't appear to have made the list.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, and this is a repeat.

2 kernel files contain proprietary SGI copyright statements, and no
GPL copyright statement. The files are:

include/asm-ia64/sn/tioce.h
include/asm-ia64/sn/tioce_provider.h

These files (and copyrights) appeared somewhere after 2.6.13.

Bill Jordan

2005-11-21 18:47:25

by Prarit Bhargava

Subject: Re: Proprietary Copyrights in the Kernel

Bill Jordan wrote:
> I sent this out before, but it doesn't appear to have made the list.
> Forgive me if I'm mistaken, and this is a repeat.
>
> 2 kernel files contain proprietary SGI copyright statements, and no
> GPL copyright statement. The files are:
>

One of the SGI engineers submitted patches to fix this to linux-ia64.

P.