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From: John David Anglin
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE
Date: Monday, August 11, 2008 - 9:56 am

> The toplevel COPYING file of the kernel sources contains the exact 

The COPYING file contains the license text but it doesn't say clearly
what the license applies to.  The closest thing to this is the statement

   Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software
   Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux
   kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it.

in the COPYING file.  The applicability of the GPL is parenthetical.
The HOWTO file is more specific, but a clear license statement at the
top level of the "source" tree is missing.

Dave
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[2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Adrian Bunk, (Wed Aug 6, 2:11 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Grant Grundler, (Sat Aug 9, 5:55 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Matthew Wilcox, (Sat Aug 9, 6:00 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Bdale Garbee, (Sun Aug 10, 6:41 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Aug 10, 7:11 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Matthew Wilcox, (Sun Aug 10, 8:14 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Grant Grundler, (Sun Aug 10, 5:05 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Grant Grundler, (Sun Aug 10, 5:10 pm)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Aug 11, 3:46 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Bdale Garbee, (Mon Aug 11, 7:15 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, John David Anglin, (Mon Aug 11, 7:56 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Aug 11, 8:51 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, John David Anglin, (Mon Aug 11, 9:56 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Matthew Wilcox, (Mon Aug 11, 10:11 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Aug 11, 11:43 am)
Re: [2.6 patch] binfmt_som.c: add MODULE_LICENSE, Grant Grundler, (Fri Aug 15, 2:44 pm)