Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:54:57 +0100 | From | devzero@web ... | Subject | how much license information inside the kernel ? |
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hi,
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
That`s more than 1% of the kernel source.
What about the idea to shorten that licening information to a minimum , e.g. by shrinking that to a single, catchy line , linking to a special licensing file like COPYING or linking to the FSF website ?
please no flames, i know this idea could be pure dynamite for some people - but i thought 3.5M is worth this mail.
regards roland
ps: i`m not sure if that has been discussed already, but i didn`t find that in the archive. please ignore, otherwise. ________________________________________________________________________ n 5 Schritten zur eigenen Homepage. Jetzt Domain sichern und gestalten! Nur 3,99 EUR/Monat! http://www.maildomain.web.de/?mc=021114
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