Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Feb 1998 16:09:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Trevor Johnson <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] GTK and alternative GUIs and windowing systems in Linux |
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> The GPL in the kernel hasn't been changed. That would be a violation of > the licencse terms for the GPL document: > > --- snip --- > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > --- snap ---
% cd /usr/src/linux; head COPYING
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". 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.
Linus Torvalds ___ Trevor Johnson
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