Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:25:19 +0100 | From | Richard Knutsson <> | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel |
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Matthias Andree wrote:
>As I say, these aren't licensed for inclusion into the kernel, they bear >a (C) Copyright notice and "All rights reserved." > > In the 2.6.15-rc5 kernel we find: data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "All rights reserved" | wc -l 932 [data@amazon linux-2.6.15-rc5]$ find . -name *.[chS] | xargs grep -n "Copyright" | wc -l 15083
But I do wonder how copyright and GPL can co-exist. Do the copyright holder own the changes anybody else does to the code? Anyone care to explain?
Thanks Richard Knutsson
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