Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754118AbYKBQkR (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 11:40:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753691AbYKBQkF (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 11:40:05 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:52766 "EHLO UNKNOWN" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753681AbYKBQkE (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2008 11:40:04 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:39:56 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: devzero@web.de Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: how much license information inside the kernel ? Message-ID: <20081102163956.GA1442@ucw.cz> References: <488434293@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488434293@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 818 Lines: 22 On Thu 2008-10-30 11:54:57, devzero@web.de wrote: > hi, > > i found that there is a LOT of repeating licensing information in the kernel. > > for me, > > find ./linux-2.6.27 -type f -exec cat {} \; |egrep "free software|GNU General Public License|Free Software Foundation|version 2 of the License|distributed in the hope|WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY|FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR" > > gives a file sized ~3.5M Now gzip it :-). Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/