Messages in this thread | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | Subject | Re: how much license information inside the kernel ? | Date | Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:37:00 +0100 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote: > On Thu 2008-10-30 11:54:57, devzero@web.de wrote:
>> 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 > > Now gzip it :-).
Now multiply it by the number of users.
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