Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751736AbWIYGCi (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:02:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751298AbWIYGCi (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:02:38 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:31632 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932202AbWIYGCh (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:02:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:59:47 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Petr Baudis , David Schwartz , linux-kernel , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The GPL: No shelter for the Linux kernel? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060923181406.GC11916@pasky.or.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1223 Lines: 29 >> Would every file that does not contain an explicit license (this >> excludes MODULE_LICENSE) falls under COPYING? > >[...] >If a file doesn't have a license mentioned, it doesn't mean that it's >"free for all" or not copyrighted, it just means that you need to find out >what the license is some other way (and if you can't find out, you >shouldn't be copying that file ;) > >Of course, for clarity, a lot of projects end up adding at least a minimal >copyright header license everywhere, just to cover their *sses. It's not >required, but maybe it avoids some confusion, especially if that file is >later copied into some other project with other basic rules (but if you >do that, you really _should_ have added the information at that point!). >[...] Though I strongly agree with you, some GNU folks (such as savannah.nongnu.org) seem to explicitly require it, even for files that do not make up a single program (i.e. like coreutils/ls.c). Jan Engelhardt -- - 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/