Messages in this thread | | | From | Shawn Willden <> | Subject | Re: Additional clauses to GPL in network drivers | Date | Sun, 7 Dec 2003 23:40:56 -0700 |
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On Sunday 07 December 2003 08:51 pm, David Schwartz wrote:
> It is definitely redundant. The idea is that if a portion of the > distribution ever winds up somewhere, the terms are still clear.
The FSF recommends including a notice in every file, also. The text they suggest is:
This file is part of Foobar.
Foobar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Foobar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Foobar; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
For Linux the first paragraph would have to be modified to harmonized with Linus' choice of GPL version.
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