Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932246AbVLDPUW (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:20:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932249AbVLDPUW (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:20:22 -0500 Received: from gepetto.dc.ltu.se ([130.240.42.40]:26620 "EHLO gepetto.dc.ltu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932246AbVLDPUV (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Dec 2005 10:20:21 -0500 Message-ID: <43930A5F.9050802@student.ltu.se> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:25:19 +0100 From: Richard Knutsson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Andree CC: Arjan van de Ven , Linux-Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel References: <1133620598.22170.14.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051203152339.GK31395@stusta.de> <20051203162755.GA31405@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133630556.22170.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051203230520.GJ25722@merlin.emma.line.org> <43923DD9.8020301@wolfmountaingroup.com> <20051204121209.GC15577@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133699555.5188.29.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204132813.GA4769@merlin.emma.line.org> <1133703338.5188.38.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20051204142551.GB4769@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20051204142551.GB4769@merlin.emma.line.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 807 Lines: 26 Matthias Andree wrote: >As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear >a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved." > > In the 2.6.15-rc5 kernel we find: data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "All rights reserved" | wc -l 932 [data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "Copyright" | wc -l 15083 But I do wonder how copyright and GPL can co-exist. Do the copyright holder own the changes anybody else does to the code? Anyone care to explain? Thanks Richard Knutsson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/