Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756173AbYKCVhY (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:37:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753456AbYKCVhK (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:37:10 -0500 Received: from mail-in-13.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.53]:50621 "EHLO mail-in-13.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751150AbYKCVhJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:37:09 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: how much license information inside the kernel ? To: Pavel Machek , devzero@web.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:37:00 +0100 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 16 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Thu 2008-10-30 11:54:57, devzero@web.de wrote: >> 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 :-). Now multiply it by the number of users. -- 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/