Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:33:23 -0700 | From | Auke Kok <> | Subject | Re: e1000 driver contains private copy of GPL... and modified one, too |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >>> Okay, so modifications are not major: different address of free >>> software foundation, completely different formatting, some characters >>> added, and some characters removed. It no longer contains Linus' >>> clarifications. >>> >>> --- LICENSE 2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200 >>> +++ ../../../COPYING 2006-07-21 05:42:27.000000000 +0200 >>> @@ -1,128 +1,141 @@ > >>> Now... I believe nothing evil is going on, but having two slightly >>> different copies of GPL in one source seems wrong, can we get rid of >>> e1000 one? >> I'll ask around here and see if this doesn't make people cringe. Meanwhile >> Pavel should examine sound/oss/COPYING and arch/sparc/lib/COPYING.LIB too :) > > Hehe, okay, going after them.
After discussing this with John and Jesse we found that we want to do an update for all our drivers and fix the issue. I will send a patch later out that removes the LICENSE file and changes the header of the involved files. I will most likely have to do this for e100 and ixgb as well, so it will come a bit later than right away.
Thanks Pavel.
Cheers,
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